Cesium-137
The real story behind Goiânia's nightmare
5.0 / 10
95 minutes
1990-10-10
Portuguese
BR
Actors :
Nelson Xavier, Joana Fomm, Stepan Nercessian, Denise Milfont, Paulo Betti, Marcélia Cartaxo, Paulo Gorgulho, Thelma Reston, Mallu Moraes, Venerando Ribeiro, Carmem Moretzsohn, Ivan Marques, Mauri de Castro, Josiane Oliveira, Andrade Jr.
Description
In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.