Cesium-137

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Roberto Pires

Status Released

Release Date 1990-10-10

Storyline

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.

"The real story behind Goiânia's nightmare"