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.
Social & External
The people behind it
Cecília Olliveira
Herself
Marcelo Adnet
Narrator
Fábio Fabato
Himself
Luiz Antônio Simas
Tainá de Paula
Milton Cunha
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