Cidade de Deus

8.2/10 from 2113 votes

Director: Kátia Lund

Date of release: 05 Feb 2002

Description

Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...

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Budget	3300000 $
Runtime	130 minute
Producer	Globo filmes Lumière Wild Bunch Lereby Productions VideoFilmes O2 Filmes Hank Levine Film
Language	Português
Themes	woman director photographer coming of age street gang brazil ghetto gang war rio de janeiro
Actors	Leandro Firmino Graziella Moretto Alice Braga Seu Jorge Matheus Nachtergaele Charles Paraventi Jonathan Haagensen Gero Camilo Lúcio Andrey Thiago Martins Mary Sheila Babú Santana Phellipe Haagensen Roberta Rodrigues Darlan Cunha Danielle Ornelas Micael Borges Kikito Junqueira Douglas Silva Daniel Zettel Marcello Melo Jr. Olivia Araújo Alexandre Rodrigues Jefechander Suplino Luis Otávio Paulo Lins Tulé Peak