City of God

Name: City of God
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2002-08-30
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen

Directed by Fernando Meirelles

Drama

Crime

20022h 9m8.4

Overview

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.