Cidade de Deus
Subtitle: City of God
By: Miramax Films ; BR apresenta ; Lei Do Audiovisual ; Ministério da Cultura ; Walter Salles e Donald K. Ranvaud apresentam ; uma realização O2 Filmes e Videofilmes ; co-produção Globo Filmes, Lumière e Wild Bunch ; um filme de Fernando Meirelles ; produção, Andrea Barata Ribeiro e Maurício Andrade Ramos ; roteiro [screenplay], Bráulio Mantovani ; co-direção, Katia Lund ; direção, Fernando Meirelles
Contributors: Charlone, César, cinematographer; Rezende, Daniel, film editor; Peake, Tulẽ, art director; Pinto, Antonio, composer; Côrtes, Ed, composer; Rodrigues, Alexandre, 1983- actor; Braga, Alice, actor; Firmino, Leandro, 1978- actor; Lins, Paulo, 1958-; 02 Filmes (Firm); VideoFilmes (Firm)
Published: 2014
Language: por
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Drama; Squatter settlements; Gangs; Young men; Urban poor; Violence; Film adaptations
Other titles: City of God
Description: Follows three boys from one of the most brutal, violent, and corrupt slums in Rio de Janeiro from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period when the only spark of hope comes from the story of a boy who wants to be a photographer.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.

Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Title from title screen.

Based on the novel by Paulo Lins.

Dolby digital 5.1, anamorphic wide screen 1.85:1.

Features: Documentary feature "News from a personal war," (56 min.); trailers, UltraViolet enabled.

Cinematography, César Charlone; editing, Daniel Rezende; art direction, Tulẽ Peake; music composed by Antonio Pinto, Ed Côrtes.

Alexandre Rodrigues, Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva.

MPAA rating: R.

For private home use only.

In Portuguese with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.