Season 2 of City of God: The Fight Rages On premieres on HBO Max

City of God: The Fight Rages On continues the story of photographer Wilson, nicknamed Rocket, in a Rio de Janeiro favela. The series’ return for a second season continues a fictional story set two decades after the events of City of God, the film by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund.

The first season picked up with Buscapé in the early 2000s, in a community caught between drug traffickers, the police and militias. Alexandre Rodrigues reprised his role from the film. This continuity between the feature film and the series gives the photographer’s story a new horizon, beyond the tale of his childhood and adolescence.

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