STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING REALITY AT THE REAR OF ESSENTIALLY THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T ACTING)

1. The scene in issue.Ask any Brazilian film fan in regards to the most intensive scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can probably point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. With this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kondr