IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,9/10
9660
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Das Leben eines Jungen in den Straßen von Sao Paulo, der in Verbrechen, Prostitution und Drogen involviert ist.Das Leben eines Jungen in den Straßen von Sao Paulo, der in Verbrechen, Prostitution und Drogen involviert ist.Das Leben eines Jungen in den Straßen von Sao Paulo, der in Verbrechen, Prostitution und Drogen involviert ist.
- Auszeichnungen
- 10 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt
João José Pompeo
- Almir
- (as Joáo José Pompeu)
Rubens Rollo
- Director
- (as Ruben Rollo)
Luis Serra
- Reporter
- (as Luiz Serra)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe film's star, Fernando Ramos da Silva, who plays a young street criminal, actually was a street criminal before he made this film. After completing it, he took up the criminal life again, and was killed in Brazil in 1987 in an alleged shootout with police. While police reports claim that da Silva was resisting arrest, there are conflicting reports from eyewitnesses, who claim da Silva was unarmed. Furthermore, a forensic examination showed that he had been shot while lying on the ground. Both his wife and mother called the shooting "a police execution." The story of Fernando Ramos da Silva is depicted in the biographical film Quem Matou Pixote? (1996).
- Alternative VersionenAll UK versions were cut by 27 secs under the 1978 Protection of Children Act. The scene removed was a panning shot showing Pixote on a bed alongside a couple having sex.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Sneak Previews: Pixote, Ragtime, Buddy Buddy, Absence of Malice (1981)
- SoundtracksCould It Be Magic
Ausgewählte Rezension
Perhaps the most brutal filmic portrait of youth ever made; Charles Dickens meets Hieronymous Bosch in this tale of a group of boys struggling to survive in the reformatories and mean streets of Brazil as the cycle of prey transformed into predators is documented.
The saddest detail is to realize that this film, made almost twenty five years ago, documents a world that in terms of its poverty and depravity, has apparently changed very little. A brutal reality captured here but with some of the most layered acting I've ever seen in the history of film by a group of amateurs picked from the streets of Sao Paulo with no previous experience. Not one or two good performances, the entire cast is quite simply remarkable, and even sadder is the fact that most of them have probably now been swallowed by the street life they portrayed.
Not as sophisticated a vision as Bunuel's 'Los Olvidados' or as sensational as Clarke's 'Kids,' but in this genre of 'children growing up in the streets' it is easily the most emotionally powerful film of them all.
The saddest detail is to realize that this film, made almost twenty five years ago, documents a world that in terms of its poverty and depravity, has apparently changed very little. A brutal reality captured here but with some of the most layered acting I've ever seen in the history of film by a group of amateurs picked from the streets of Sao Paulo with no previous experience. Not one or two good performances, the entire cast is quite simply remarkable, and even sadder is the fact that most of them have probably now been swallowed by the street life they portrayed.
Not as sophisticated a vision as Bunuel's 'Los Olvidados' or as sensational as Clarke's 'Kids,' but in this genre of 'children growing up in the streets' it is easily the most emotionally powerful film of them all.
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- 11. Apr. 2004
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