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Based, like his earlier film Vidas secas, on a book by Graciliano Ramos, this film is set in the 1930s and is an account of Ramos's imprisonment on the penal island of Ilha Grande. A fictional film with a documentary tone, the film is meant to be a metaphor for Brazilian society today and a film against prisons in the widest sense of the word

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