Pixote (1980) on Netflix
During a police round-up of street children in São Paulo, ten-year-old Pixote is sent to a juvenile reformatory. Inside, the guards and their commander use the boys as pawns in their games.
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Plot summary
Pixote is a ten-year-old boy surviving on the streets of São Paulo, drawn into crime, prostitution and drugs. A police round-up of street children sends him to FEBEM, a juvenile reformatory, where the guards and their commander treat the boys as pawns in their own sadistic games. Pixote sniffs glue to escape the constant threat of abuse and rape. There he meets Chico, and Lilica, a seventeen-year-old trans hustler held in the same place, whose lover is one of the boys. After a boy dies of abuse by the police, the officials blame Lilica's lover for the killing. Pixote, Chico, Lilica and Dito find a chance to flee.
Cast
- Jorge Juliãoas Lilica
- Edilson Linoas Chico
- Zenildo Oliveira Santosas Fumaça
- Claudio Bernardoas Garatao
- Israel Feres Davidas Roberto Pie de Plata
- Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santosas Diego
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pixote (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The title role of Pixote was played by Fernando Ramos da Silva, who was killed at the age of 19 by Brazilian police in São Paulo. Marília Pêra played Sueli in the film.
- Filmmakers Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Harmony Korine, Martin Scorsese and the Safdie brothers have cited Pixote as being among their favourite films or as an influence on their work.
- Brazil's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was disqualified after being accepted, because the film had been test marketed in Brazil before the allowable date.
- The film was shot in the manner of a documentary in the tradition of Italian neorealism: amateur actors were used whose real lives strongly resembled those of the young protagonists they played.
