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City of God(2002)
Released
2002 · FILM

City of God

A young man in the violent favela of City of God must choose between survival and morality as he witnesses the brutal rise and fall of a gang of amateur thieves who turn his community into a war zone.

“If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.”

Directed by
Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund
Written by
Paulo Lins, Braulio Mantovani
Rated
FSK · FSK 16
Runtime
130 min
Language
PT
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 270+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel RezendeShot by Cesar CharloneScored by Antonio PintoDesigned by Tule PeakSound by Martin HernandezCostumes by Bia SalgadoVFX by Renato Batata

Box Office

2002 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$30.6M

Budget$3.3M
Worldwide gross$30.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.6M — 25% of worldwide · International: $23.1M (75%)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • City of Godde
  • City of Goden
  • Ciudad de Dioses
  • La Cité de Dieufr
  • (Bulgarian)Градът на Бога
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • FranceMay 18, 2002
  • BrazilAug 30, 2002
  • United StatesAug 31, 2002
  • MoroccoSep 1, 2002

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