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Pixote
19808127 min
DramaKriminalitet
Udgivet
26. sep. 1980
Land
Brazil
Produktioner
HB FilmesEmbrafilme
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
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