Rent Who Killed Pixote? (1996)
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2h 0min
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- Synopsis:
- In 1980, impoverished working-class child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva was chosen from 1300 other boys to play the lead role in Hector Babenco's Pixote, a film that showed the plight of Rio de Janerio's street urchins forced into criminal lives. The film earned great acclaim and Ramos da Silva received fame and fortune. Unfortunately, fate and the rigidity of Brazil's social system had other, more tragic plans. This biopic tells his sorrowful tale and follows the grim sequence of events that led to his brutal, controversial murder by the police.
- Actors:
- Cassiano Carneiro, Luciana Rigueira, Joana Fomm, Tuca Andrada, Roberto Bomtempo, Carol Machado, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Antonio Abujamra, Janser Barreto, Paulo Betti, Louise Cardoso, Neuza Caribé, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Candido Damm, Laura Lustosa, Antônio Petrin, Sávio Pinheiro, Anselmo Vasconcelos, Thiago Vidal, Orlando Vieira
- Directors:
- José Joffily
- Producers:
- Paulo Halm, Alvarina Souza e Silva, José Joffily
- Writers:
- Jorge Durán, Paulo Halm, José Joffily, José Louzeiro
- Aka:
- Quem Matou Pixote?
- Studio:
- Cest La Vie
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- New waves of Latin American Cinema
- Countries:
- Brazil
