Title City of God Overview Cidade de Deus is a shantytown 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 by 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 The eyes of an artist. By accident, he becomes a professional photographer, gaining his freedom. Tagline If you run you're dead... if you stay, you're dead again. Period. Genres Drama, Crime Keywords male nudity, street gang, brazilian, photographer, 1970s, puberty, ghetto, gang war, coming of age, woman director, 1980s Production Companies O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Globo filmes, Lumiere, Hank Levine Film, Lereby Productions Production Countries Brazil, France Spoken Languages Português Original Language pt Runtime minutes 130 Release Year 2002
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 31 million USD