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City of God (2002)

Name: City of God
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Genre: drama film, crime film, hood film
Rating: 8.6

City of God is a 2002 Brazilian epic crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. The screenplay, written by Bráulio Mantovani, is adapted from the 1997 novel of the same name by Paulo Lins, though the plot is also loosely based on real events. The film portrays the rise of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the late 1960s and early 1980s, culminating…

Directed by Fernando Meirelles · Shot by César Charlone · Cut by Daniel Rezende · Music by Antonio Pinto, Ed Côrtes

Behind the scenes

A Conversation With Fernando Meirelles - City of God (2002) — FilmArchive · 10 min
City of God - The Open World Movie | The Cinema Cartography — The House of Tabula · 14 min
City of God | Why It Will Stick With You - Film Analysis — I Take On Movies · 12 min

Elsewhere

More by Fernando Meirelles

Art
The Nutty Boy 2 — 1998
Maids — 2001
The Constant Gardener — 2005
Blindness — 2008
360 — 2011
Rio, I Love You — 2014
The Two Popes — 2019
Here Comes the Flood — 2026

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