Pixote: A lei do mais fraco

Hector Babenco with Fernando Ramos da SilvaJorge Julião and Gilberto Moura

1981 Crime Brazil 128 minutes
Pixote: A lei do mais fraco
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.
Directed by : Hector Babenco
Genre: Crime, Drama

 

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