Os Trombadinhas (1979)

Directed by

Anselmo Duarte

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

livre

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A soccer coach for a youth team in São Paulo works undercover with the police to look into a group of young pickpockets. He finds out that adult criminals are using the kids for their schemes.

adventurousgrittysuspensefulsocially consciousearnestaction-orienteddramatic

What happens

Os Trombadinhas (lit. 'The Pickpockets') is a 1980 Brazilian crime adventure film directed by Anselmo Duarte. The screenplay was written by Carlos Heitor Cony and Pelé, who also starred as the protagonist. The film features Pelé as a Santos FC youth coach who temporarily joins the police to investigate a ring of juvenile thieves in downtown São Paulo, uncovering their exploitation by adult criminals. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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