Pixote
"They can't outrun the law of the weakest."
R1980
4
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
R1980
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
- director
- Maria Cecília M. de Barros
- cast
- Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino
- runtime
- 2 hr 8 mins
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