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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.
The City of God is a raging maelstrom of violence, drugs and gang warfare, and its inhabitants are indoctrinated in the way of the gun from an early age. Fernando Meirelles' film (based on a true story) is a breathtakingly convincing interpretation of life in the notorious Rio favela.
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.
Sep 26, 2020 · Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film City of God is one of the most highly-acclaimed international films of the past 20 years. With an 8.6/10 rating on IMDb, the film is currently ranked #22 on IMDB's Top 250. The film also boasts a 91% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes rating and a 79/100 Metascore.
Jan 17, 2003 · In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket (Phellipe Haagensen) is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug ...
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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.
Nov 22, 2022 · City Of God (2002) - HD Trailer. CITY OF GOD (2002) was nominated for four Academy Awards, and proudly sits at #23 of the IMDb Top 250 Movies, right inbetween The Silence Of The Lambs...
City of God, the favela (squatter settlement) for which the movie is named, is one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious slums. Our narrator is a young boy named Rocket who leads us from the late '60's, when the favela is orderly rows of pre-fab housing for the poverty-stricken, into the early '80's when it has become a warren of bleak apartment ...
Jan 24, 2003 · "City of God" churns with furious energy as it plunges into the story of the slum gangs of Rio de Janeiro. Breathtaking and terrifying, urgently involved with its characters, it announces a new director of great gifts and passions: Fernando Meirelles.
