Pixote

Name: Pixote
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1980-09-26
Duration: 127 min
Cast: Elke Maravilha, Tony Tornado, João José Pompeo, Emílio Fontana, Walter Breda

They can't outrun the law of the weakest.

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Release Date

9/26/1980

Runtime

127 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Portuguese

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A brutal, unflinching descent into the lives of abandoned children in Brazil, where institutional violence and systemic corruption offer no path but further degradation. The film watches with a journalist's eye, never exploitative, always devastating.