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Pixote

Original title: Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
  • 19801980
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 2h 8m
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7.9/10
8.3K
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Pixote (1980)
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The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
IMDb RATING
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8.3K
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    • Hector Babenco
    • Hector Babenco(story)
    • Jorge Durán(story)
    • José Louzeiro(book "Infancia dos Mortos")
  • Stars
    • Fernando Ramos da Silva
    • Jorge Julião
    • Gilberto Moura
    • Hector Babenco
    • Hector Babenco(story)
    • Jorge Durán(story)
    • José Louzeiro(book "Infancia dos Mortos")
  • Stars
    • Fernando Ramos da Silva
    • Jorge Julião
    • Gilberto Moura
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    • 55User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
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    Pixote (1980)
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    Fernando Ramos da Silva in Pixote (1980)
    Fernando Ramos da Silva in Pixote (1980)
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    Fernando Ramos da Silva and Marília Pêra in Pixote (1980)
    Rubens de Falco and Jorge Julião in Pixote (1980)
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    Gilberto Moura and Cleide Eunice Queiroz in Pixote (1980)
    Marília Pêra in Pixote (1980)
    Jorge Julião in Pixote (1980)
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    Fernando Ramos da Silva
    Fernando Ramos da Silva
    • Pixote
    Jorge Julião
    • Lilica
    Gilberto Moura
    • Dito
    Edilson Lino
    • Chico
    Zenildo Oliveira Santos
    • Fumaça
    Claudio Bernardo
    • Garatao
    Israel Feres David
    • Roberto Pie de Plata
    Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santos
    • Diego
    Marília Pêra
    Marília Pêra
    • Sueli
    Jardel Filho
    Jardel Filho
    • Sapatos Brancos
    Rubens de Falco
    Rubens de Falco
    • Juiz
    Elke Maravilha
    Elke Maravilha
    • Debora
    Tony Tornado
    Tony Tornado
    • Cristal
    Beatriz Segall
    Beatriz Segall
    • Widower
    João José Pompeo
    • Almir
    • (as Joáo José Pompeu)
    Rubens Rollo
    • Director
    • (as Ruben Rollo)
    Emilio Fontana
    • Dr. Delgado
    Luis Serra
    • Reporter
    • (as Luiz Serra)
      • Hector Babenco
      • Hector Babenco(story) (screenplay)
      • Jorge Durán(story) (screenplay)
      • José Louzeiro(book "Infancia dos Mortos")
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    • Trivia
      The 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 Who Killed Pixote? (1996).
    • 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Temporada de Caça (1988)

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    Brilliant and Brutal
    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.
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    • Release date
      • September 18, 1981 (Brazil)
      • Brazil
      • Portuguese
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      • Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Production companies
      • Embrafilme
      • HB Filmes
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    • 2 hours 8 minutes
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