Small Planet Documentary Production Company

DURATION: 112 min.

Zuni and Gabi live in one of the favelas of Rio, the "City of God". Two children who live selling drugs and who clash with rival gangs and the police. There are 6,000 other under-aged soldiers like them who make up the striking force of the drug gangs. They are equipped with modern heavy weapons.

The documentary records their words, their thoughts and their dreams. It examines the reasons that lead them to crime. It enters prisons and meets their "commanders". It then follows a police officer, Captain Getz, whose idol is Superman. It records his unit's operations in the favelas, the suspicious activities of the policemen, the policy of repression, and also the bleak reality faced by the desperate and poverty-stricken inhabitants who live trapped in the crossfire.

Getz, Zuni and Gabi, in the end, meet in a fateful game that only life can make so real.

MAIN CREDITS

Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Conducted by Georgia Anagnou / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Yiannis Koliris, Hristos Kostakopoulos /  Sound-Music by Eleni Mathioudaki / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, Portugese / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International