City of God

City of God

2h 9m 2002 Drama, Crime Brazil, France, Germany
Budget: $3,300,000 Revenue: $30,641,770

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.

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Writer

Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins