Paulo Lins
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 508
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Publisher
O2 Filmes
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Built in the 1960s, Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a sprawling housing project built to keep the poor as far as possible from Rio's glamorous beaches and resorts. By the 1980s, it has degenerated into a war zone so dangerous that visitors from outside risk being shot to death on sight, a poisonous stew of poverty, drugs, and crime. "If you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you, too, " says Rocket, who wants to be a photographer. Rocket's...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. The true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.