Cleide Queiroz

'Carandiru', içinde yaklaşık 8000 mahkum barındıran, halk arasında 'Carandiru' olarak bilinen Brezilya Sao Paulo Hapishanesi'nde 1992 Ekim'inde gerçekleşen bir isyanın öyküsünü beyazperdeye taşıyor. Babenco, bir isyan olarak başlayıp bir katliama dönüşen olayı ('9. Koğuş Katliamı'), öykünün merkezine AIDS'le mücadele için hapishaneye gelen, idealist bir doktor karakterini koyarak işlemeyi tercih etmiş. Zamanla hapishanedeki farklı grupların saygısını kazanan doktor, hızla gelişen olaylar karşısında çaresiz kalıyor.

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

Julio is a peaceful, uptight dentist who planned his life 80 years in advance. Suddenly dumped by his girlfriend, he also finds out he is the son of a womanizer, a popular singer of the 1970s, and the brother of an intense gay musician, both of whom he never knew—until now.

Os Ossos do Barão is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from April 28 to September 8, 1997. It is an adaptation of Jorge Andrade's 1963 play of the same name, adapted for television by Walter George Durst, with collaboration from Duca Rachid, Mário Teixeira, and Marcos Lazarini. The telenovela stars Ana Paula Arósio, Tarcísio Filho, Juca de Oliveira, Othon Bastos, and Leonardo Villar. Set in São Paulo in 1948, the story follows Egisto Ghirotto, the wealthy son of Italian immigrants who dreams of gaining social prestige by marrying his son, Martino, to Isabel, the great-granddaughter of the late Baron of Jaraguá. Their romance sparks a bitter conflict between a rising immigrant family and a declining aristocratic dynasty, exposing themes of class, ambition, tradition, and the social transformation of Brazil.