CLACS Media Collection

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Set on the mean streets of a Rio de Janeiro slum, this film follows two boys who grow up down differing paths(stretched across over 15 years, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s). The film follows their paths through a series of short stories, as we learn about the violent, often short lives of those wrapped up in the dangerous world of drugs and crime on Brazil's cruelest area. Streaming available through Youtube, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, DirecTV, Swank, and Amazon Prime as of 9/12/2019.
Call Number: FFBRAC49.1DVD
Original Title: Cidade de Deus
English Title: City of God
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Country: Brazil
Subject/Theme: Feature Films
Additional Subject/Theme: Political/Social Issues (Contemporary)
Director(FF): Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund
Year: 2003
Distributor: FACETS
Media Type: DVD
Language: portuguese w. subtitles
Time: 130 minutes
Age Level:
Public Performance Rights: 0
Rating: R


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