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City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. Bráulio Mantovani's script is adapted from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins, but the plot is also loosely based on real events.
A chicken escapes, and an armed gang chases after it in a Favela called the Cidade De Deus ("City of God"). The chicken stops between the gang and a young man named Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues), who believes the gang wants to kill him.
Jan 7, 2023 · The 2002 movie City of God depicts crime and coming-of-age in Rio de Janeiro's favelas over multiple decades, but how much of the story is true?
Aug 31, 2002 · In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin. Paulo Lins. Author, Screenplay. Fernando Meirelles.
The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
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Aug 5, 2013 · Ten years after a Rio de Janeiro slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) burst into the world's consciousness with the hit film of the same name, very little has changed for the residents...
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One of the best films of the 21st century, City of God (Cidade de Deus) paints a disturbing portrait of life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and covers the birth & flourishing world of gangsters, gang wars & drug deals spanning over 3 decades from 1960s to 1980s, all meticulously captured through the eyes of a young photographer who continuously ...