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City of God

Release Date:February 13, 2004

Running Time:129 min

Genres:Drama, Crime

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Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues Leandro Firmino Phellipe Haagensen Douglas Silva Jonathan Haagensen Matheus Nachtergaele Seu Jorge Jefechander Suplino Alice Braga Emerson Gomes Edson Oliveira Michel Gomes

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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.

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