★ A movie that changed Brazil's public safety policy
★ Nominated for several Academy Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002
Cidade de Deus is a shanty town that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen from the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen, Jonathan Haagensen