The House of the Dead poster
Film · 2009 · 24m

The House of the Dead

A Casa Dos Mortos

Create a free account Add it to your list, track every episode, rate it.

Synopsis

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid institutions which sentence the insane to life imprisonment. The poem "The House of the Dead" was written during the filming of the documentary and reveals the forgotten deaths that occur in these judicial asylums. There are three stories in three acts of death. Jaime, Antonio, and Almerindo are anonymous men, considered dangers to society, whose punishment is the tragedy of suicide, the unending cycle of being committed to the asylum, or surviving life imprisonment in the house of the dead. Bubu is the narrator of his own life and also of his own destiny-death in the asylum.

Details

Director
Debora Diniz
Release
May 6, 2009
Status
Released
Country
Brazil
Network
ImagensLivres
Runtime
24m

View on IMDb

Where to watch

No known streaming options in United States.

People who liked this also looked at