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Released
1980 · FILM

Pixote

They can't outrun the law of the weakest.

Directed by
Runtime
127 min
Language
PT
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Pixote, a 10-year-old boy, suffers torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center. Two of its residents are murdered by police officers who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transgender sex worker. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape, and they begin to survive by engaging in a life of crime, which leads to increasing violence and death.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Luiz EliasShot by Rodolfo SanchezScored by John Neschling

Also known as

  • Asphalt-Haiede
  • Pixote - Asphalt-Haiede
  • Pixote, la loi du plus faiblefr
  • Pixote - La legge del più deboleit

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