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Carandiru, as the Detention Center Prison
Complex became know as, the largest in Latin America, will
be deactivated before May, 2002.
With that purpose, almost eight thousand convicts will be
transfered to penitentiaries spread throughout the whole state
of São Paulo in a true and secret war operation. After
all the seven pavilions are completely empty, the construction
will be entirely imploded.
On the other hand, Hector Babenco, the well know director
of "Pixote, the Law of the Weakest" and "Kiss
of the Spider Woman", will be shooting the feature film
"Carandiru", based on the brazilian bestseller by
Doctor Dráuzio Varella, in the actual location of Carandiru,
exactly in the days that it is being emptied.
The research for the book and for the film involved testimonies
by inmates and ex-convicts and a large research on the prison's
everyday life. Dráuzio Varella conducted an important
and unprecedented work of AIDS prevention in the Detention
Center.
This project has as objective the making of a documentary
that will investigate the final process of life in Carandiru
(everyday life of the last days, the memories of crimes and
events, the diverse and conflicting opinion on the deactivation)
at the exact moment that the fictional feature film by Hector
Babenco is being made.
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