City of God - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "City of God"
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Timing:
2:9 (129 min)
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Actors and characters
Leandro Firmino
Character Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé
Phellipe Haagensen
Character Bené - Benny
Jonathan Haagensen
Character Cabeleira - Shaggy
Jefechander Suplino
Character Alicate - Clipper
Emerson Gomes
Character Barbantinho - Stringy
Edson Oliveira
Character Barbantinho Adulto - Older Stringy
Michel Gomes
Character Bené Criança - Young Benny
Roberta Rodrigues
Character Berenice - Bernice
Luis Otávio
Character Buscapé Criança - Young Rocket
Kiko Marques
Character Cabeção - Melonhead
Gustavo Engracia
Character Editor do Jornal - Rogerio Reis
Darlan Cunha
Character Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries
Robson Rocha
Character Gelson - Gerson
Leandra Miranda
Character Lúcia Maracanã
Renato de Souza
Character Marreco - Goose
Karina Falcão
Character Mulher do Paraíba - Shorty's Wife
Sabrina Rosa
Character Namorada do Galinha - Knockout's Girlfriend
Rubens Sabino
Character Neguinho - Blacky
Kikito Junqueira
Character Otávio
Edson Montenegro
Character Pai Buscapé - Rocket's Father
Gero Camilo
Character Paraíba - Shorty
Daniel Zettel
Character Thiago - Tiago
Charles Paraventi
Character Tio Sam - Uncle Sam
Luiz Carlos Ribeiro Seixas
Character Touro
Paulo 'Jacaré' César
Character Tuba
Bernardo Santos
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Diego Batista
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Diego Ferreira
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Marcio Vinicios
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Micael Borges
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Rafael de Castro
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Ramon Francisco
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Thiago Wallace
Character Caixa Baixa - Runts
Alexander Cerqueira
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Alexandre 'China' Tavares
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
André Pires Martins
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
António Rodrigues
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Bartolomeu Braga
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Carlos Henrique Avernas
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Cláudio César
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Cleiton Ventura
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Damião Firmino
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Euclides Garcia
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Fábio Castor Conceição
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Felipe Nogueira
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Ivan Martins
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
John Lima
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Jonas Michel
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Leandro Lucas
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Leandro Dias Batista
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Lúcio Andrey
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Luis Carlos Rodrigues Oliveira
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Luís Nascimento
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Márcio Costa
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang / Bando Cenoura
Mário Luiz Costa Oliveira
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Nelson Amaral
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Omar 'Mazinho' Barcelos
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Otto Amorim
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Peter Soares
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Rafael de Souza
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Roberto Miguez
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Rómulo 'Guinomo' Sech
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Ruy Vitório
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Sérgio Bispo
Character Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Alex dos Santos
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Anderson Bruno Marques
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Anderson Lugão
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
André Luiz Mendes
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Antoni Guedes
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Bruno Ricardo
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Charles Samuel
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Éder Júlio Martins
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Eduardo 'BR' Piranha
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Erick Maximiano Oliveira
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Fábio 'Dog' da Cunha
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Felipe Villela Mendonça
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Frederico Lins
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Guilherme Estevam
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Guilherme William
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Harlem Teixeira
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Leandro Gonçalves
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Leandro Lima
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Leiz Moreira
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Leonardo Melo
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Luis Carlos Oliveira
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Marcello Melo
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Marcello 'Máscara' Alves
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wallace Araújo
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wallace Nascimento
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wanderson 'Petão' Lopes
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wellington Costa Ricardo
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wemerson Gonçalves
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Wendel Barros
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Yuri Krushewsky
Character Bando Cenoura - Carrot's Gang
Anderson Faria
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Arlindo Lopes
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Carol Meirelles
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Carlos 'Lencinho' Smith
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Christiano
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Diego Mendes
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Jéssica Santos
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Lorena Da Silva
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Luciana Roque
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Marina Mandonça Pinheiro
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Michele Gonçalves
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Pierre dos Santos
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Vinicius Faria
Character Cocotas - Groovies
Delano Valentim
Character Polícia - Police
Ed Money
Character Polícia - Police
Fabiano Gonçalves
Character Polícia - Police
Felipe Porto
Character Polícia - Police
Francisco Marcos
Character Polícia - Police
Leo Generoso
Character Polícia - Police
Marcelo António Santos
Character Polícia - Police
Marcelo Araújo
Character Polícia - Police
Marcos Viana
Character Polícia - Police
Maurício Figueiras
Character Polícia - Police
Ricardo Lira
Character Polícia - Police
Ricardo Rocha da Silva
Character Polícia - Police
Wagner Mello
Character Polícia - Police
Waldeck Roque
Character Polícia - Police
Júlio César Siqueira
Character Aristóteles
Denise Fonseca
Character Ba
Adão Xalebaradã
Character Exu
Edward Boggis
Character Garoto viciado - Addicted Kid
Guti Fraga
Character Gerente do supermercado - Supermarket Manager
Marcello Costa
Character Irmão Mané Galinha - Knockout Ned's Brother
Marcos Coutinho
Character Irmão Mané Galinha - Knockout Ned's Brother
João Soares
Character Jabá
Rafael Fontenele
Character Jovem Trabalhador - Young Worker
Rosangela Rodrigues
Character Mãe Buscapé - Rocket's Mother
Jota Farias
Character Motorista do DKW - Driver
Mary Sheila
Character Mulher do Neguinho - Blacky's Wife
Gil Torres
Character Mulher do Ônibus - Woman on Bus
Paulo Lins
Character Pastor da Igreja - Shepherd of the Church
Christian Duurvoort
Character Paulista - Man from São Paulo
Olivia Araújo
Character Recepcionista do Motel
Tulé Peak
Character Newspaper Employee (uncredited)
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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