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City of Men tv series

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Original title

Cidade dos Homensaka

AKA

City of Men

Year

2002

Running time

30 min.

Country

Brazil

Director

Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, Regina Casé, Paulo Morelli, César Charlone, Paulo Lins, Philippe Barcinski, Cao Hamburger, Adriano Goldman, Eduardo Tripa, Roberto Moreira, M Pink Christofalo, Pedro MorelliSee 5 More

Screenwriter

Paulo Morelli, Leandro Saraiva, Jorge Furtado, George Moura, Newton Cannito, Guel Arraes, Regina Casé, Fernando Meirelles, César CharloneSee 5 More

Cast

Music

Luciano Kurban, Berna Ceppas

Cinematography

Mauro Pinheiro Jr., Adriano Goldman

Producer

Rede Globo de Televisão, Central Globo de Produção, O2 Filmes. Producer: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Genre

TV Series. Drama. Comedy | Crime. Spin-off

Movie Groups

City of God

Synopsis

TV Series (2002-2018). 6 Seasons. 27 Episodes. In this original variation on the Latin American telenovela (slow, emotional soap), life in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian big city jungle, is told in short, fast alternating scenes from the viewpoints of two sets of characters, all youngsters, but from both sides of unequal life: generally dark-skinned street-kids, which rarely come to anything better then begging and street crime, and generally white boys from the middle and upper classes, like João Victor, who have a shot at a better future thanks to an actual education. Yet each group simultaneously hates, fears and envies the other at some level when their worlds physically touch but socially remain unbridgeable...

Critics' reviews

"'City of Men' pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie"

Tim Goodman: SFGATE
"Unlike anything else you've ever seen on TV."

Salon
"It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce"

Slate
The humorous moments are all the more precious because life is so tough in this engrossing series. "

Marilyn Moss: The Hollywood Reporter
"The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in 'The Wire'"

Charles McGrath: The New York Times
"It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points"

Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times

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