STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING REALITY DRIVING THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T PERFORMING)

1. The scene in question.Question any Brazilian film admirer about the most extreme scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They will most likely point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. In this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm via a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kondras