Elite Squad
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
The Brazilian government formed a crack paramilitary force known as the BOPE (Batalho de Operaes Policiais Especiais, or Special Police Operations Battalion) to take matters into its own hands. Now, d…
Elite Squad
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
The Brazilian government formed a crack paramilitary force known as the BOPE (Batalho de Operaes Policiais Especiais, or Special Police Operations Battalion) to take matters into its own hands. Now, director Jos Padilha`s social-consciousness drama Tropa de Elite carries viewers inside of BOPE for a scathing indictment of the cycle of violence that permeates Brazilian society, scripted by 12-year-plus BOPE veteran Rodrigo Pimentel. Wagner Moura (Hector Babenco`s Carandiru) stars as Captain Nascimento, the leader of a BOPE unit who is seriously considering retirement in the face of his impending fatherhood. In an effort to pick his successor, he looks to two younger recruits, part-time law student Andr Matias (Andr Ramiro) and the bellicose hood Neto (Caio Junqueira). Inevitably, the events that each encounters on the roughshod Brazilian streets -- particularly a trip to clean up some of the neighborhoods in anticipation of the pope`s visit -- begin to shape and redefine them in ways that neither can even begin to anticipate.
Elite Squad
Action · Adventure
Film Details
The Brazilian government formed a crack paramilitary force known as the BOPE (Batalho de Operaes Policiais Especiais, or Special Police Operations Battalion) to take matters into its own hands. Now, director Jos Padilha`s social-consciousness drama Tropa de Elite carries viewers inside of BOPE for a scathing indictment of the cycle of violence that permeates Brazilian society, scripted by 12-year-plus BOPE veteran Rodrigo Pimentel. Wagner Moura (Hector Babenco`s Carandiru) stars as Captain Nascimento, the leader of a BOPE unit who is seriously considering retirement in the face of his impending fatherhood.
In an effort to pick his successor, he looks to two younger recruits, part-time law student Andr Matias (Andr Ramiro) and the bellicose hood Neto (Caio Junqueira). Inevitably, the events that each encounters on the roughshod Brazilian streets -- particularly a trip to clean up some of the neighborhoods in anticipation of the pope`s visit -- begin to shape and redefine them in ways that neither can even begin to anticipate..