Newport International Film Festival 2008 : Elite Squad

June 3 to 8, 2008 .:. Newport, Rhode Island

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Elite Squad

Jose Padilha 2007

Categories: Feature, Featured

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Run time: 114 min. | Brazil

ELITE SQUAD (TROPA DE ELITE) is an intense and astonishing look at Rio de Janeiro’s notorious favelas, the volatile slums on the edge of the city. The film is set in 1997 and presents an intimate look at the city’s vast and intricate web of corruption. Drug trafficking militias have virtual control within the favelas while the police run their criminal enterprises outside. The elite BOPE force (State Police Special Operations Battalion) combats drug trafficking –keeping order has its price though and their actions make it difficult to distinguish right from wrong and justice from revenge. (Winner Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award- 2008)