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product_id: 5527505
title: "Bus 174"
brand: "sandro do nascimentorodrigo pimentelfelipe lacerdajos padilha"
price: "R547"
currency: ZAR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/5527505-bus-174
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region: South Africa
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# Bus 174

**Brand:** sandro do nascimentorodrigo pimentelfelipe lacerdajos padilha
**Price:** R547
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Bus 174 by sandro do nascimentorodrigo pimentelfelipe lacerdajos padilha
- **How much does it cost?** R547 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Product Description               On June 12, 2000, a bus filled with passengers was hijacked in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight. The kidnapper, Sandro do Nascimento, terrorized his victims for four and a half hours as the whole country watched the drama broadcast live on Brazilian T. Based on extensive research of stock footage, interviews and official documents, "Bus 174" is the careful investigation of the hijacking -- focusing on andro do Nascimento, his childhood, and how he was unavoidably doomed he was to become a bandit.                  .com               A shocking, hypnotic look at a real-life disaster. In June 2000, an armed gunman hijacked a bus in downtown Rio de Janeiro. An angry, strung-out former street kid, he spent an afternoon threatening his hostages while the lurid drama was broadcast live over the national TV networks. The extensive newsreel footage from this terrible event forms the bulk of Bus 174, but director Jose Padilha takes time to fill in the background, too: the poverty-broken world of the gunmen is detailed, and so is the political situation that led to some ludicrous decision-making on the part of the authorities during the siege. The fact that most viewers outside Brazil don't know how the ordeal ended will add to the suspense, but either way this is a gripping experience. The sight of the crazed hijacker, self-consciously styling his weird version of action-movie villainy, will haunt you long after the film is over. --Robert Horton

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## Customer Reviews

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    Most Inept S.W.A.T. Ever Filmed
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2020*

I find it hard to believe that the Brazil S.W.A.T. team had never before lost a hostage (only if every prior hostage- taker eventually surrendered would I believe that.)  Instead of putting the lives of the hostages ahead of the criminal, they allowed him to fire two separate shots (including a long, well-aimed shot where they should have immediately acted.)  Unfortunately, there was not a man or well-trained woman on the bus to disarm this jerk, as it would have been relatively easily by someone of equal strength or training.  Extremely aggravating to watch S.W.A.T. fail to act.  The end-result was just added tragedy to the fact that a decent S.W.A.T. team could have easily ended the event with a well-placed rifle shot when he had his head out the window (no danger of the heavy glass window deflecting the bullet) and with his gun also out the window and not to his hostage's head.  Instead of crying about the bad guy's past, I would have liked to know how and when he got the gun, how many prior crimes he committed with it, the life, hopes and dreams of the innocent women on the bus, .i.e. less attempt to make the bad guy a folk hero.  And Liberals want to have us totally depend on Law Enforcement for our safety!

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    Touching, compelling, beautiful
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2011*

This film often does pull its viewer in different directions. At times you feel so angry at Sandro, but his background makes you consider the many facets of the society that breeds such street people. The massacre of the street kids was especially horrendous, and I think they give the event fair representation in this documentary. I think that the filmmakers tried very hard to remain unbiased while criticizing a government that does not always work. As a few people have mentioned, this is a very long documentary, but I personally think that it needs to be this long to do the story justice. Overall, it is very poignant and heart wrenching, but in the end it will make you reconsider the way that society isolates specific groups of people, and it may cause you to question the way you yourself profile people.

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    Social and economic rights
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 6, 2007*

I first heard about Bus 174 in a law seminar on human rights and culture.  For a high school class I am teaching on human rights, I was looking for films to show.  Bus 174 is an excellent film in its own right (well directed and edited, etc).  But it will certainly prove educational in my class.  The film asks the viewer to consider to what extent the state is responsible for lawlessness when lawlessness is a result of the desperation that springs from poverty and social marginalization.  Given insufficiently trained police and their resultant tendency toward brutality, and a criminal detention system in which prisoners live under inhumane conditions, how can anything but anger and violence amongst prisoners and ex-convicts result?  Hard questions confronted by the robbery/hostage incident aboard Brazil's Bus 174; an incident depicted exquisitely by this film.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-10*