The Sandpit Generals (1971)

Directors

Hall Bartlett

Cast

Dorival Caymmi, John Rubinstein

The story

The film features a street gang of poor homeless youth struggling for existence in Brazil. After letting a girl with her little brother settle in their beach shelter, the gang's inner spirit is gradually reformed as she brings a sense of love and family into their shabby abode. One of the local priests helps the gang at the cost of his clergy career.

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