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Fernando Ramos da Silva | ... | Pixote |
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Jorge Julião | ... | Lilica |
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Gilberto Moura | ... | Dito |
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Edilson Lino | ... | Chico |
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Zenildo Oliveira Santos | ... | Fumaça |
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Claudio Bernardo | ... | Garatao |
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Israel Feres David | ... | Roberto Pie de Plata |
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Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santos | ... | Diego |
| Marília Pêra | ... | Sueli | |
| Jardel Filho | ... | Sapatos Brancos | |
| Rubens de Falco | ... | Juiz | |
| Elke Maravilha | ... | Debora | |
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Tony Tornado | ... | Cristal |
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João José Pompeo | ... | Almir (as Joáo José Pompeu) |
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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. Written by Anonymous
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18 September 1981 (Brazil) See more »Also Known As:
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According to a family member of Fernando, he never managed to watch the finished film, always watching some bits but never totally. See more »Alternate Versions
All 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. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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"Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco" deals with what is perhaps the greatest of all Brazilian themes: poverty. And along with poverty the other unnatural feelings and actions it brings; prostitution, violence, crime, rape and murder.
Brazil is the country of paradoxes, and its social problems are present everywhere. The difference between the rich and the poor; the beautiful and the ugly; happiness and the most profound human decay.
"Pixote" is one of the films that dare to touch and open these so painful wounds, and does it without the slightest glimmer of hope, in an honest portrayal of a country that, like Pixote himself, is already lost.