Directors: Hector Babenco
Writer(s): Hector Babenco, José Louzeiro, Jorge Durán
Actors: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura
Production Co.: Embrafilme, HB Filmes
Country: Brazil
Year: 1981
Language: In Portuguese with optional English subtitles.
Format: DVD
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Summary: “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 lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime.”–Container. Based on the book A infância dos mortos (The Childhood of the Dead Ones) by José Louzeiro.