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.

• DirectorFernando Meirelles
• Release30 August 2002
• Genre
  Drama / Crime
• Duration2h 9m
• Budget$3,300,000
• Revenue$30,641,770
• Rate
  

  8.427
  7893 reviews
• Productions

  O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Wild Bunch, Hank Levine Film & Music, Globo Filmes, Lumière