From its very first scenes–showing the arrival of a young doctor of shining goodwill and naivete at boisterous Carandiru prison in Sao Paolo, Brazil–Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru” is a prison movie of ...

Visit to Carandiru, photo by Flickr user silmaraelis, published under a Creative Commons license. The caption says “the souls had longer been forgotten there”. The Carandiru Massacre, considered a ...

SAO PAULOSAO PAULO — Twenty-five Brazilian police officers were found guilty on Saturday of killing 52 inmates during the 1992 riot at Sao Paulo’s Carandiru prison. Judge Rodrigo Tellini de Aguirre ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian court has sentenced 15 police officers to 48 years in prison each for their roles in the deaths of four inmates in the bloody crackdown of a 1992 prison riot that ...

Filmmaker Hector Babenco sees the parallels, and so do his friends, who have peppered him with questions about the similarities between Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the Brazil penitentiary that ...

Hector Babenco’s brutal yet involving prison drama, “Carandiru,” immediately drops us from high in the sky above Sao Paulo directly down inside the dark, dank walls of the infamous Casa de Detencao -- ...

Authorities said Tuesday they believed the killing of the police commander who led Brazil’s bloodiest-ever prison massacre was a crime of passion and not the work of professional hit men. Subscribe to ...

Argentinian-born director Hector Babenco returns to jail for “Carandiru,” but if the effort is laudable, it is no match for his 1985 cellblock drama “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” “Carandiru” is named ...

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INMATES at an overcrowded Brazilian prison create a fascinating society for themselves in “Carandiru.” That’s the major strength of this latest film from Hector Babenco, an Argentina-born director ...

Moviegoers who know the tides of recent Brazilian history likely will get more from Hector Babenco’s new prison movie, Carandiru, than the rest of us, because the filmmaker tells us so little about ...