CAST:
Fernando Ramos da Silva (Pixote),
Jorge Julião (Lilica),
Gilberto Moura (Dito),
Edilson Lino (Chico),
Zenildo Oliveira Santos (Fumaça)

SCRIPT:
Hector Babenco,
Jorge Durán (based on the book by José Louzeiro)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rodolfo Sánchez

Synopsis:

This films portrays brutal growing-up on the streets of São Paulo where children quickly lose their innocence in contact with crime, prostitution and violence. The protagonist is the ten-year-old kid Pixote who gets picked up by the police together with other homeless kids and sends them to a youth center for underage delinquents. There his life becomes even worse, and he starts to sniff glue in order to endure the violence and molesting carries out by the guards.

Most of the young actors in the film are non-professionals, including the main actor who used to be a street criminal before starring in this film. Soon after he finished working on the film he returned to crime and six years later he was killed in a police shoot down.  

color, digital, 128 min