In the Name of Reason

In the Name of Reason (1979)

TMDb

8.1

25/05/1979 • 0h 24m
original-title

Em Nome da Razão

status

Released

production-companies

Quimera Filmes

original-language

Portuguese

budget

-

revenue

-

The infamous Hospital Colonia de Barbacena (Barbacena Colony Hospital), biggest mental institution of Brazil, once compared to concentration camps of Auschwitz ,opens its gates to a production crew during the country's dictatorship period. This short documentary depicts how mental patients were treated inside the institution and how anyone could end up an intern there for no plausible reason.

production-countries

Brazil

spoken-languages

Portuguese

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