Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco)

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7.8	Rating (77 ratings)
7.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Hector Babenco

Starring (View all)

Fernando Ramos Da Silva
Pixote

Jorge Julião
Lilica

Gilberto Moura
Dito

Zenildo Oliveira Santos
Fumaça

Marília Pêra
Sueli

Jardel Filho
Sapatos Brancos

Rubens de Falco
Juiz

Elke Maravilha
Debora

Written by

Hector Babenco
(story)

Jorge Durán
(story)

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17 years, 5 months ago at Jul 8 7:03

skykid

2 votes

I liked the movie. At the beginning it started as documentary as some guy was talking about the tough conditions in Brazil. What actually impressed me was that as the guy mentioned all the kid actors including the main character Pixote played by Fernando Ramos Da Silva were coming from the real world – from the poorest neighborhoods, with one mission in life – to survive.

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2 years, 7 months ago at May 7 22:56

fernando

2 votes

(MU) Great rediscovery of the film project represened by Scorsese. Intimacy, a world apart in the margins of Sao Paulo and Rio, as credible as natural, the grain, the texture, the light, the conversations of the bunch of kids...

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Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Release date: 18 September 1981
UPC: 717119404048

Tags: 1980s (5), Crime (4), Brazil (4), Drama (3), Brazilian (3), 1980's (2), Coming Of Age (2), São Paulo (1), Runaways (1), Police Corruption (1), Portugese (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), Argentina (1), Prostitution (1), Poverty (1), Cult (1), Society (1), Action (1)

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