City of God

City of God depicts the transformation of a favela into an urban jungle through the eyes of Rocket, who tries to pursue photography while avoiding violence. City of God is a 2002 Portuguese-language Crime Drama film featuring Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Jonathan Haagensen, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva and Jonnaton Japiassu. The movie is based on City of God by Paulo Lins. O2 Filmes in association with VideoFilmes and Hank Levine Film. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Andrea Barata Ribeiro and Maur Cio Andrade Ramos. City of God is written by Br Ulio Mantovani and directed by Fernando Meirelles and K Tia Lund. Globo Filmes acquired the distribution rights for the film. City of God was released on 26th June 2003 and takes a screen time of 130 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. City of God was made on a budget of $3 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $30 million. Cinematography was done by C sar Charlone and editing by Daniel Rezende. The music was composed by Ant Nio Pinto along with Ed Cort S.