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HECTOR BABENCO is a director of national
and international prestige, who's direct and deep way of seeing
the world has given the public, unmatched movies.
This is the fourth movie where HECTOR BABENCO situates the
plot within the walls of a prison. It was so in "Lucio
Flavio, Passenger of Agony", "Pixote" and "Kiss
of the Spider Woman". To reveal beyond the concrete and
realistic implications, the symbology of the prison universe
will be one of the main focus points of this documentary.
DRÁUZIO VARELLA, besides his recognized work on oncology
and preventive medicine, succeeded in writing a humane and
revealing book about the complex and polemical universe of
the largest prison in the country, Carandiru. A book that
opened wide the cracks of the secret universe of jails.
CARANDIRU, Detention Center, a place of cruelty, of human
remains, of violence, of exception ? A secret and forbidden
place, but strangely so close to us all? To plunge into the
movie will mean to know life and death within those walls.
To understand the silence and the screams behind gates so
well shut.
Besides the credibility and excellence of the names involved
and the importance of the theme, justification for this project
is based, above all, on the opportunity to reflect on the
reality of prison life.
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