Release Date

24 Jan, 2010

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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Actors

Crew

Lucy Walker

Hank Levine

Dudu Miranda

Samy Waitzberg

José Moreau Louzeiro

Lucy Walker

Moby

Fabian Remy

Andrea Barata Ribeiro

Tiago Arakilian

Peter Martin

Fernando Meirelles

Pedro Kos

Samuel Lehmer