Cidade de Deus
(2002)
Director:
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Writer:
Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins
Cast:
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen
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.