Aug 30, 2002
129 min
Full-HD

City of God (2002)

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Category

Drama Crime

Country

Brazil France Germany

Companies

O2 Filmes VideoFilmes Wild Bunch Hank Levine Film & Music Globo Filmes Lumière

Alexandre Rodrigues

Buscapé

Leandro Firmino

Zé Pequeno / Dadinho

Phellipe Haagensen

Bené

Douglas Silva

Dadinho

Jonathan Haagensen

Cabeleira

Matheus Nachtergaele

Sandro Cenoura

Seu Jorge

Mané Galinha

Jefechander Suplino

Alicate

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