Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date2002-08-30
Languagept
Runtime2h 9m
Budget$3,300,000
Revenue$30,641,770
Production
O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Hank Levine Film & Music, Globo Filmes, Lumière
8.4(8.5k)
•2002•2h 9mCity of God
"If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you."
Overview
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.
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