Pixote : a lei do mais fraco / HB apresenta ; argumento/roteiro, Hector Babenco e Jorge Duran ; direção, Hector Babenco.

"Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
International cinema.
Corporate Authors: HB Filmes
Unifilm Inc
Empresa Brasileira de Filmes
New Yorker Films
New Yorker Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Babenco, Hector
Durán, Jorge, 1942-
Silva, Fernando Ramos da, 1967-1987
Pêra, Marília
Louzeiro, José
Language:Portuguese
English
Language and/or Writing System:
In Portuguese with optional English subtitles.
Published: New York : New Yorker Video, [2001?]
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
International cinema.
Subjects:
Louzeiro, José > Film adaptations.
Street children > Brazil > Drama.
Juvenile delinquents > Brazil > Drama.
Brazil > Social conditions > 1964-1985 > Drama.
São Paulo (Brazil) > Drama.
Feature films > Brazil.
Motion pictures > Brazil.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Genre:
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Survival of the weakest.
Format: Video DVD

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