Released
City of God
August 30 2002 (over 22 years ago)Rating
84
Based on
7419 reviews
If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.
- Director: Fernando Meirelles
- Writers: Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins
- Genres: Drama, Crime
- Runtime: 2 h 9 m
- Budget: $3,300,000
- Box office: $30,641,770
- Countries: Brazil, France, Germany
- Companies: O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Hank Levine Film & Music, Globo Filmes, Lumière
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.
