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Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, City of God follows the lives of young people growing up in a violent neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film depicts crime, social conditions, and the impact of gang culture over time. Från IMDB: In the slums of Rio, two kids paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
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City of God (2002)
129 min
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.