If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.
Original title
Cidade de Deus
Released
8/30/2002
Origin country
BR
Genre
Crime, Drama
Production companies
O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Hank Levine Film & Music, Lumière, Globo Filmes
Budget
$3,300,000.00
Revenue
$30,641,770.00
Runtime
2hr 9min
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.
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