"New Yorker Films Video." . . . "Drame social adapté du roman \"Infancia dos Mortos\" de Jose Louzeiro, décrivant la misère physique et morale des enfants sans foyer du Brésil qui, pour survivre, se prêtent à la criminalité. En Portuguais avec sous-titres anglais." . . . . . . . . . "Pixote a lei do mais fraco" . "Prison films" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "This devastating film was shot for the most part in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pixote is an abandoned ten-year-old boy trying to survive in its' streets and reform school. There are said to be three million such abandoned or orphaned children roaming the city streets of Brazil. Many, as in this film, do not survive the brutalities of such living. Realistically filmed, this is not for the squeamish. Winner of several major awards, this film is in Portuguese with English subtitles." . . . . . . . . . . . "Survival of the weakest" . . . . "Drama" . "Infancia dos mortes" . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired" . . "A realistic dramatization of the brutal underworld inhabited by Brazil's unwanted children, based on the novel Infancia dos mortos by Jose Louzeiro." . . . . . . . . . "Film adaptations" . . . "Foreign language films" . . . . . . . . . "This devastating film was shot for the most part in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pixote is an abandoned ten-year-old boy trying to survive in its streets and reform schools. There are said to be three million such abandoned or orphaned children roaming the city streets of Brazil. Many, as in this film, do not survive the brutalities of such living. Realistically filmed, this is not for the squeamish. Winner of several major awards." . . . . . "\"Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime.\"--Container." . "Pixote" . . "Crime films" . "Child crime and corruption in the slums of Brazil." . . . "Biography" . . . . . . . . . . . "\"Livrée à la misère, une bande de gamins erre dans les rues de São Paulo, multipliant les petits larcins. Jusqu'au jour où la police débarque pour effectuer une grande rafle et emmène les jeunes vers des centres de redressement. Pixote est l'un de ces enfants. La première nuit de son séjour, marquée par le viol d'un de ses camarades d'infortune, constitue le début d'une longue suite de brimades..." . . . . "Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime." . . . . . "Lei do mais fraco" . . "Fiction films" . "Drame psychologique" . . . . . . "Social problem films" . . . . . "Feature films" . . . . "Pixote A lei do mais fraco" . "Pixote" . . . "Pixote (Motion picture)" . . "Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment." . . "Brazil" . . "São Paulo (Brazil)" . . . . "Unifilm/Embrafilme." . . "Unifilm (Firm)" . . "1964 - 1985" . . "Social conditions." . .