The Sandpit Generals (also released as The Defiant and The Wild Pack) is a 1971 drama film directed by Hall Bartlett.

In the socialist country, the movie became so well-known that it inspired theater plays, books, special reports on post-Soviet criminal youth etc.

[3] 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.

Police eventually capture the main characters and after their lengthy stay in prison, the girl is terminally ill.