City of God

Original title: Cidade de Deus

If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.

2002 · 2 h 09 · Brazil, Germany, France · Portuguese

• Crime
• Drama

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.