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A Look inside Sao Paulo's Most Notorious Penitentiary

By Curt Holman
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | July 8, 2004
With the loose, anecdotal structure of nonfiction work, the film explores the daily lives of the prisoners, who occasionally recount their stories in flashbacks. The tales inevitably build to violent confrontations, but frequently find room for gallows humor.
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