STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING TRUTH OF THE MATTER GUIDING BY FAR THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T ACTING)

1. The scene in dilemma.Ask any Brazilian film lover concerning the most intense scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They will probably mention the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. With this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm via a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kondrashov re