City of God

Original Title: Cidade de Deus

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

Release Date: 2002-08-30

Duration: 129 minutes

Synopsis

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.