“Reality transcends fiction”

Bus 174 (2002)

Name: Bus 174
Director: José Padilha
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Released: 2002-10-22
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares

October 22, 20021h 58mPT

7.3

143 votes

Documentary Crime

Overview

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

Director

José Padilha

Writer

José Padilha