The Scavengers (1993)

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.

Released Jan. 1, 1993 45 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.garbage, tmdb.misery, tmdb.garbage-dumpster, imdb.landfill, imdb.rubbish-dump, imdb.garbage-dump, imdb.rio-de-janeiro-brazil + 19 more, imdb.misery, imdb.poverty-in-brazil, imdb.poverty, imdb.rotten-food, imdb.eating-rotten-food, imdb.extreme-poverty, imdb.1990s, imdb.selling-cans, imdb.selling-paper, imdb.1993-in-brazil, imdb.year-1993, imdb.pig-eating-garbage, imdb.poor-family, imdb.brazilian-society, imdb.year-1992, imdb.broken-dream, imdb.hope-for-a-better-future, imdb.unemployment-in-brazil, imdb.poverty-in-south-america