

City of God (2002)
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.
Release Date : August 30, 2002
Runtime : 129m
Companies : O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Hank Levine Film & Music, Globo Filmes, Lumière
Countries : Brazil, France, Germany
Keywords : street gang, photographer, gangster, rio de janeiro, gang war, ghetto, coming of age, introspective, critical, tense, conceited, sincere, based on real events