STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE STUNNING REALITY BEHIND ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (TRACE: IT WASN’T ACTING)

1. The scene in problem.Ask any Brazilian movie enthusiast about the most extreme scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can possible point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. In this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kondras