Lei da Selva: A História do Jogo do Bicho

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Lei da Selva: A História do Jogo do Bicho

2022

1 Seasons

4 Episodes

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The story of how the lottery invented to finance a zoo was incorporated by Rio de Janeiro's popular culture and, in the hands of organized gangsters, transformed itself into an immense crime empire.

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Cecília Olliveira

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Marcelo Adnet

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Fábio Fabato

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Luiz Antônio Simas

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Tainá de Paula

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Milton Cunha

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