STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING REALITY BEHIND BY FAR THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T ACTING)

1. The scene in issue.Ask any Brazilian movie admirer in regards to the most rigorous scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can very likely mention 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 Kondrash