City of God: Book vs. Movie
City of God (2002), directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund, adapts Paulo Lins's 1997 novel. Set in a Rio de Janeiro housing project, it follows young people growing up as armed gangs gain power around them.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Paulo Lins
- Year
- 1997
- Pages
- 448Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 28 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Paul Christy
In Rio de Janeiro's City of God housing project, children grow up among families trying to make a living and young men discovering what robbery can buy them. Across decades, small-time crime gives way to organized drug dealing, with weapons and money reshaping the neighborhood. Personal grudges spread through a community where staying outside the violence becomes increasingly difficult.
- Director
- Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
- Writer
- Bráulio Mantovani
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 2 hr 8 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Alexandre Rodrigues, Seu Jorge, Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino
- Genre
- coming-of-age, Crime, Drama, hood
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Rocket wants to become a photographer in a Rio neighborhood where other boys are drawn toward robbery and drug dealing. As he grows up, the rise of the ruthless Li'l Zé turns familiar streets into contested territory. A camera gives Rocket a way to document the people around him, but access to their world can also put him in danger.
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