• Film ID:
  • 502
  • Availability:
  • VHS - Adv. Booking Required
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • VHS=125 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • Brazil.
  • Primary Language(s):
PIXOTE (1982)
Cast
Fernando De Silva. Marilia Pera.
Director(s)
Hector Babenco.
Categories
Art House. Drama. Gay Interest. Recommended.
Review
A semi-documentary portrayal of the life of the street children forced to survive by wit and crime in Brazil. Pixote is eight years-old and on the street. Picked up in a routine police search he is subjected to prison brutality and meets his future criminal associates. A searing indictment.
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