The elite squad

Original movie title:
TROPA DE ELITE
Country:        
Brasil, 2007., 107’
Director:
José Padilha
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Maria Ribeiro

Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival 2008
– Golden Bear

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize 2008 :
best: actor, cinematography, director, editing, make-up, sound, special effects, supporting actor

Summary:

‘The Elite Sqad’ / ‘Tropa de Elite’ is a Brasilian uncompromising action movie, controversial winner of Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival 2008.

Chaos of Rio De Janeiro. Place where no one knows who are greater criminals - drug dealers or corrupted cops?
The Pope is coming to Rio and that’s a perfect opportunity to clean the mess in the sinful town. In charge of making changes are the members of Special Police Operation Battalion, elite squad that does it in their unique way. Natives from Rio considered violent scenes from the movie as part of a documentary, proving how convincing this action thriller is. Oscar nominee Braulio Mantovani (‘City of God’) is a scriptwriter for ‘Tropa de Elite’.

Biography

Brasilian director José Padilha (also producer and screenwritter) directed the awarded and critically acclaimed documentary ‘Unibus 174’ based on a true story of a young man who hijacked a bus and threatened to shoot all the passengers.

13.07., SUNDAY, 23.30, BARGE ON DANUBE

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