City of God script – Scripts on Screen

Year:2002

Director:Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Written by:Paulo Lins (Screenplay), Paulo Lins (Author), Bráulio Mantovani (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...

City of God Script Resources:

City of God Script PDF - [Braulio Mantovani][Undated] at Script Fly ($)
City of God Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)
City of God Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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