News From a Personal War

Year: 1999

Runtime: 57 mins

Language: Portuguese

Directors: Kátia Lund, João Moreira Salles

DocumentaryCrime

The film examines the relentless cycle of urban violence in Brazil, focusing on Rio de Janeiro's favelas. It follows police officers, drug traffickers and residents of shantytowns as they become entangled in a daily, unending conflict where no side emerges victorious, revealing the human cost of the city's hidden war.

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