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United States of AmericaBrazilian documentary on the lives of three female inmates and their inter relationships.
SynopsisClaudia is the oldest and most respected inmate at Madre Pelletier Penitentiary. The one who gives the orders and protects.
Her protégé is young Daniela, whose life is at risk because she is accused of having killed her own child. But Claudia, like Betania, is to leave the prison soon. Daniela will have to defend herself alone.
Claudia leaves in search of her son. Betania feels the temptation of leaving the rules of the semi-open regime to one side, to live in freedom with a new love.
Thank you for your interest in my documentary THE PRISON AND THE STREET/O CARCERE E A RUA. I am very proud of it and hope you enjoy it. And thanks to FiGa Films for bringing it to North America, as well as the Sundance Institute and the Soros Foundation for their support.
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Directed by
Liliana Sulzbach -
Written by
Liliana Sulzbach & Angela K. Pires -
Produced by
Liliana Sulzbach - The Prison and the Street Website
Written by: Liliana Sulzbach & Angela K. Pires
Produced by: Liliana Sulzbach
Cast
: Claudia Maria Rullian: Betania Fontoura da Silva
: Daniela Caldeira Cabral
Crew
: Annette Bittencourt: Everson Egas Colossi Nunes
: Jose Pedro Goulart
: Ricardo Baptista da Silva
: Sivia Wolff
: Sadil Breda
: Marcos Pedroso
: Angela K. Pires
: Nico Nicolaiewsky
Montréal World Film Festival
Flanders International Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Jerusalem Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival
Festival Internacional Documental de Barcelona, Spain
The Prison & the Street, Brazil, 80 min.
All done on location in the Madre Pelletier Penitentiary, in Porto Alegre.
The Zeppelin Filmes production narrates the lives of three inmates at a women’s penitentiary, and stresses the process of these characters’ adaptation, struggle for survival and social visibility. The project was sponsored by The Soros Documentary Fund and The Sundance Institute.
“The Prison and the Street” won the Best Documentary Prize at the 32nd Gramado Film Festival.
VARIETY says "(Liliana)Sulzbach maintains a lucid tone throughout that balances reflection and humor. The penitentiary, is not presented as the stuff of horrified exposes. A man comes to the gate each night, shouting out to his wife all the details of the family's day, signing off with a declaration of love that is echoed back from an open jailhouse window. Tech credits are well above average, the crispness of sound and image adding greatly to pic's total lack of cliched misery".
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Director
Liliana Sulzbach
