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City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic action 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.
- $30.6 million
- Antônio Pinto, Ed Cortês
- $3.3 million
- Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Maurício Andrade Ramos
A film based on a novel about the violence and crime in a Rio de Janeiro slum, seen through the eyes of a photographer boy. Follow the stories of two friends who become a gangster and a photographer, and the rise and fall of a notorious drug lord.
City of God offers a shocking and disturbing -- but always compelling -- look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero. In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young...
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- Fernando Meirelles
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- Alexandre Rodrigues
Reviews. City of God. Roger Ebert January 24, 2003. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "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.
On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD.
