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📊 Film Specifications

Director Fernando Meirelles

Writer Bráulio Mantovani (Screenplay), Paulo Lins (Novel)

Original Title Cidade de Deus

Release Date August 30, 2002

Runtime 129 min (2h 9m)

Country Brazil, France, Germany

Language PT

Budget $3,300,000

Box Office $30,641,770

Studios O2 Filmes • VideoFilmes • Wild Bunch

City of God (2002)

Name: City of God
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2002-08-30
Rating: 4.2

Directed by Fernando Meirelles

• Written by Bráulio Mantovani , Paulo Lins

"If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you."

⭐ 4.2 / 5 (8,602 votes) ⏱️ 129 min 🎬 Drama, Crime

Ratings Breakdown:

8,602 ratings

0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

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.