City of God

• Movie

  Type

• 2002

  Year

• 2h 10m

  Runtime

• ★ 8.4

  Rating

• Drama / Crime

  Genre

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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Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues

Buscapé

Leandro Firmino

Zé Pequeno

Phellipe Haagensen

Bené

Douglas Silva

Dadinho

Jonathan Haagensen

Cabeleira

Matheus Nachtergaele

Sandro Cenoura

Seu Jorge

Mané Galinha

Jefechander Suplino

Alicate

Alice Braga

Angélica

Roberta Rodrigues

Berenice

Luis Otávio

Buscapé Criança

Darlan Cunha

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