City of God - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "City of God"
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Timing:
2:9 (129 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Producer
Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Producer
Marc Beauchamps
Producer
Hank Levine
Producer
Vincent Maraval
Producer
Donald Ranvaud
Producer
Juliette Renaud
Producer
Executive Producer
Elisa Tolomelli
Executive Producer
Bel Berlinck
Executive Producer
Editor
Costume Design
Bia Salgado
Costume Design
Inês Salgado
Costume Design
Production Design
Tulé Peak
Production Design
Makeup Artist
Anna Van Steen
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rudy Pi
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Ed Cortês
Original Music Composer
Second Assistant Director
Isabella Teixeira
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Steadicam Operator
Fabricio Tadeu
Steadicam Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Roland N. Thai
Sound Effects Editor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Renato Batata
Visual Effects Supervisor
Production Manager
René Bittencourt
Production Manager
Claudine Franco
Production Manager
Screenplay
Paulo Lins
Screenplay
Bráulio Mantovani
Screenplay
Novel
Paulo Lins
Novel
Sound Designer
Martín Hernández
Sound Designer
Dialogue Editor
Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard
Dialogue Editor
Assistant Editor
Fred Ricci
Assistant Editor
Third Assistant Director
Malu Miranda
Third Assistant Director
First Assistant Camera
Pablo Hoffmann
First Assistant Camera
Co-Director
Assistant Director Trainee
Lúcio Andrey
Assistant Director Trainee
Marcelo Pires
Assistant Director Trainee
Sound Recordist
Unsun Song
Sound Recordist
Creature Design
Francisco Bispo
Creature Design
Author
Paulo Lins
Author
What's left behind the scenes
- All non-professional actors were recruited from the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and some of them (Alexandre Rodriguez for the role of Rocket) were even from Cidade de Deus itself.
- The director stated that if he had initially known that filming in the Rio slums would be so dangerous, he would have abandoned the idea of making 'City of God'.
- To create tension between the characters of Goose and Lil’ Zé, acting coach Fatima Toledo advised teenager Renato da Silva (Goose) to bully child actor Douglas Silva (Lil’ Zé) for 15 days straight. As a result, in the scene where Goose slaps Lil’ Zé, Douglas Silva couldn’t hold back and started crying, threatening to leave the film. Thus, the look of pure hatred he casts at Goose is completely genuine.
- In one scene, little Rocket (Luis Otavio) starts laughing at his brother, Goose, who is being slapped by their father. The laughter wasn't written into the script, so Goose's line 'Don't laugh at me' was pure improvisation.
- The scene where we see piles of bodies on concrete blocks was recreated from a famous photograph taken during that very drug war.
- During the filming in the newspaper office, some members of the film crew acted as extras, particularly art director Tool Pick (a grown man who mocks Rocket).
- The dialogue between Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) and Marina (Graziela Moretto) about him never having taken a hot shower was not in the script. In fact, it was a conversation between the actors off-camera during a break, when Rodrigues was talking about his life in the favelas.
- The script also did not include the moment in the final scene where the boy loses his shoe and goes back to pick it up. However, the director decided to keep this moment, as it vividly emphasized the presence of a very young boy in the gang.
- The actor Leandro Firmino, who played one of the main roles (Little Zé), also comes from Cidade de Deus (City of God). He came to the audition completely by chance, along with his friends.
- Seu Jorge, who played Knockout Ned, is actually a very famous Brazilian singer. One of his songs is featured on the film's soundtrack.
- Filming didn’t actually take place in City of God, as it would have been incredibly dangerous. The entire film was shot in neighboring, less dangerous areas.
- Fernando Meirelles wanted to cast exclusively non-professional actors and actors whose names were almost unknown. One such actor was Mateus Nachtergaele, who played the gang leader nicknamed Carrot. But while Meirelles was working on the script, Nachtergaele unexpectedly became extremely popular in Brazil thanks to the film “Auto da Compadecida, O” (2000). Fernando Meirelles was slightly upset, but Mateus promised him that he would lose himself in his role so completely that his fame wouldn't distract the audience from the film for a single second. Nachtergaele even moved to City of God, where the film's main actors lived, and spent three months there to better prepare for the role.
- The main character, Rocket, is a fictional image based on the life of two people: the author of the book “City of God,” Paulo Lins, and his childhood friend who dreamed of becoming a photographer.
- The black-and-white satellite view of the territory belonging to Little Zé shows the real City of God.
- The film is banned from viewing in Belarus.
- The first murders of Pretty Ned are accompanied by joy and congratulations from the residents of City of God. The woman who spoke to him after the first murder is the mother of the real Pretty Ned.
- Initially, the script did not include a scene where the gang prays before starting the war. During filming, one of the guys hired from the slums told the director that prayer before a confrontation is an essential attribute of the lifestyle of gangs. Then Fernando Meirelles suggested the boy perform this ritual, and it ended up in the film.
- In the very finale, in a conversation of a small gang of bandits, the phrase slips out that they need to create a list of people who need to be killed. The boys grew up and became the most infamous brigade in Rio, called the Red Team. It is known that they still have a 'blacklist'.
- In one scene, little Rocket (Luis Otavio) starts laughing at his brother nicknamed Goose, who is slapped by their father. The laughter was not scripted, so Goose's line, 'Don't laugh at me,' was pure improvisation.
- Fernando Meirelles wanted to cast only non-professional actors and actors whose names were almost unknown. One such actor was Matheus Nachtergaele, who played the gang leader nicknamed Carrot. But while Meirelles was working on the script, Nachtergaele unexpectedly became extremely popular in Brazil thanks to the film 'Auto da Compadecida, O' (2000). Fernando Meirelles was slightly upset, but Matheus promised him that he would become so immersed in his role that his fame would not distract the viewer from the film for a single second. Nachtergaele even moved to Cidade de Deus, where the film's main actors lived, and spent three months there to better prepare for the role.
- The main character, Rocket, is a fictional image based on the lives of two people: the author of the book 'City of God,' Paulo Lins, and his childhood friend who dreamed of becoming a photographer.
- Initially, the script did not include a scene in which the gang prays before starting a war. During filming, one of the guys hired from the slums told the director that prayer before a skirmish is an essential attribute of the lifestyle of gangs. Then Fernando Meirelles suggested that the boy perform this rite, and it ended up in the film.
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