Cidade dos Homens

Name: Cidade dos Homens
Genre: Drama

2002–2005TV GloboDrama

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Two boys growing up in a Rio favela, made by the City of God team either side of the film.

Cidade dos Homens opens with a main title sequence of 35 seconds.

At 35 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on TV Globo in 2002, when Os Normais was also on the network.

1 sequence339th most looked up of 479 in the 2000s

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The opening titles

Season 1

35s

The 2002 vinheta de abertura, the boy against the favela and the sky. Searching the Portuguese noun for an opening rather than the series' name is what found it. Catalogued a second time under the English title City of Men.

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