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 ...

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 prisondrama Carandiru has become thehighest grossing Brazilian film of all time in its home territory according tolocal distributor Columbia TriStar. In terms of admissions, it ...

The film is based on “Carandiru Station,” a memoir by Drauzio Varella, a physician, who worked at the prison. “Carandiru” begins in the late ’80s with the arrival of Varella (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) ...

Based on the book “Carandiru Station”, by Dr Drauzio Varella Starring Caio Blat, Gero Camilo, Milton Goncalves, Nelson Machado, Maria Luisa Mendonca, Lazaro Ramos, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Vasconcuelos, ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Helmer Hector Babenco’s HB Filmes will produce a spinoff of his box office hit, prison drama “Carandiru,” for Brazil’s No. 1 net TV Globo. Globo plans to air the 10-episode skein of ...

It was with trepidation that I called up Hector Babenco to ask him if I could interview him again about his film Carandiru. My laptop, including all my notes from a previous 90-minute conversation, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Local pics are helping to power the B.O. so far this year, raising hopes the Brazilian film industry will perform at levels not seen in nearly 15 years. During the first half of 2003, ...