Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.1/10 | |
Released: | March 29, 1965 | |
Runtime: | 88 min | |
Genres: | Adventure Drama | |
Countries: | Sweden | |
Companies: | SF Studios Svensk Filmindustri (SF) | |
Cast: | Cosme dos Santos Leila Santos de Sousa Josafá Da Silva Santos | |
Crew: | Flávio Migliaccio João Bethencourt Arne Sucksdorff | |
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