Cidade de Deus Filming Locations

Cidade de Deus filming locations

Where was Cidade de Deus filmed? Cidade de Deus was filmed in 2 locations across Brazil in the following places:

Cidade de Deus Filming Locations

Rio de Janeiro is a huge seaside city in Brazil, famed for its Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mount Corcovado and for Sugarloaf Mountain, a granite peak with cable cars to its summit. The city is also known for its sprawling favelas (shanty towns). Its raucous Carnaval festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant costumes and samba dancers, is considered the world’s largest.

The Cidade de Deus is a West Zone neighborhood of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is also known as CDD among its inhabitants.

Cidade de Deus (2002)
Alternate title: City of God
Runtime: 130 minutes
Rating: 8.6
Release year: 2002
IMDB: tt0317248
Plot summary

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Genres
Crime
Drama
Cast
Alexandre Rodrigues
Leandro Firmino
Phellipe Haagensen
Douglas Silva
Directors
Fernando Meirelles
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Cidade de Deus filming locations