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Directed by : Hector Babenco
Duration: 128 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country : Brazil (1981)
Original language: Portuguese

 Synopsis

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.

 

Pixote: A lei do mais fraco .

 

 

 

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