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Director

Fernando Meirelles

Screenplay

Bráulio Mantovani

City of God 2002

Drama/ Crime/

BUDGET - $3,300,000

Status - Released

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

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.