Studio: Miramax Films Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge Directed By: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund Written By: Braulio Mantovani Produced By: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos Rated: R In Theaters: 2003-01-17 Genre: Art/Foreign, Drama
Movie Plot / Synopsis
Set on the mean streets of a Rio de Janeiro slum (in the "Cidade de Deus" housing project), this film follows two boys who grow up down differing paths (stretched across over 15 years, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s). One, Buscape (Rodrigues), becomes a photographer, the other becomes a drug dealer. The film follows their paths through a series of short stories, as we learn about the violent, often short lives of those wrapped up in the dangerous world of drugs and crime on Brazil's cruelest area