4.3
75 reviews

Pixote

Hector Babenco19802h 8mDrama, Crime, Classic

Why we chose it

Hector Babenco auditioned 1,300 boys from São Paulo’s favelas for this crushingly real classic of Brazilian cinema, with its flashes of beauty, and chose Fernando Ramos da Silva. Seven years after the premiere police shot him dead, life catching up with cinema as brutally as in “City of God”.

Synopsis

Pixote is a São Paulo street kid until the authorities pick him up and lock him in a reform school where the guards are more dangerous than the boys. He breaks out but doesn’t go home, moving from stealing to worse and worse things. A woman and a few other boys stay at his side, and they’re the only family he has.

Information

Director
Cast
Also known as
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Festival screenings
Locarno FF, San Sebastián IFF
Language
Portuguese, English
Country
Brazil
Subtitles
Greek, Polish
Age rating
18+

Locarno Film Festival

Special Jury Prize

1981

San Sebastian Film Festival

Honourable Mention

1981

Golden Globes

Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

1982

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4.3
75 reviews

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