For decades, thousands of patients were hospitalized forcibly, without diagnosis of mental illness, in an enormous hospice in the city of Barbacena, Minas Gerais, southeast of Brazil. There they were tortured, raped and killed without anyone caring about their fate. Famous journalists, in the 1960s and 70s, made reports denouncing the ill-treatment. None of them - as Daniela Arbex does now - could tell the whole story. Sixty thousand died. Some managed to survive. And they now tell a little about the terrifying history of the Cologne Hospital.
Directing | Armando Mendz | Director |
Directing | Daniela Arbex | Director |
Writing | Daniela Arbex | Writer |
Camera | Mauro Pianta | Director of Photography |
Camera | Kiko Barbosa | Camera Operator |
Production | Alessandro Arbex | Producer |
Production | Daniela Arbex | Producer |
Production | Paula Belchior | Producer |
Production | Patricia Carvalho | Producer |
Production | Roberto Rios | Producer |
Production | Maria Angela de Jesus | Producer |
Production | Flavio Mayerhofer | Executive Producer |
Editing | Fábio Cabral | Editor |
Directing | Suzi Souza | Assistant Director |
Writing | Pilar Fazito | Writers' Assistant |
Production | Daniela Arbex | Researcher |
Camera | Mauro Pianta | Camera Operator |
Camera | Victor Zaiden | Camera Operator |
Camera | Jefferson Steiner | Camera Operator |
Camera | João Victor Giovani | Steadicam Operator |
Camera | Eduardo Machado | Aerial Camera |
Sound | Oswaldo Ferreira | Sound |
Sound | Ian Dias | Sound Assistant |
Production | Cézar Campos | Production Director |
Production | João Paulo Bortotti | Production Assistant |
Crew | Flávio Wellington Pereira | Machinist |
Crew | Mário Cesar Pereira | Machinist |
Lighting | Rodolfo Carlos | Electrician |
Crew | Manuel Pirilli | Technical Supervisor |