Country:Brazil, 128 minutes
Spoken languages:Portuguese
Genres:Crime, Drama
Director(s):Hector Babenco
Writer(s):
Video Codec:Unknown
Number: 296
Certification:R
Storyline:
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.
Cast:
Marília Pêra (as Sueli), Beatriz Segall (as Widower), Fernando Ramos da Silva (as Pixote), Jorge Julião (as Lilica), Gilberto Moura (as Dito)
Medium: Unknown,
Comments: 185-240
Loaned: No
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1