Storyline
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Directors
Cast
Gero Camilo, Charles Paraventi, Alice Braga, Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge, Jefechander Suplino, Roberta Rodrigues, Luis Otávio, Darlan Cunha, Thiago Martins, Daniel Zettel, Danielle Ornelas, Micael Borges, Lúcio Andrey, Marcello Melo Jr., Babú Santana, Mary Sheila, Paulo Lins, Olivia Araújo, Graziella Moretto, Tulé Peak, Kikito Junqueira
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Reviews
100
The film is seductive, disturbing, enthralling -- a trip to hell that gives the passengers a great ride.
100
New York Post
Like a bomb exploding in a fireworks factory: It's fierce and shocking and dazzling and wonderful.
100
A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless.
90
As the movie's frenetic visual rhythms and mood swings synchronize with the zany, adrenaline-fueled impulsiveness of its lost youth on the rampage, you may find yourself getting lost in this teeming netherworld.
67
It takes a strong stomach to sit through its two-plus hours of non-stop brutality (much of it involving very small children).
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