André Ramiro

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Three-time Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader) adapts Andy Mulligan’s novel about three kids from Brazil who find themselves running for their lives when a discovery in a rubbish dump has them immediately pursued by police.

Sequel to thriller Elite Squad and Brazil's all time biggest box office hit. Depicts Rio's special military police unit, a crack squad assembled to confront the drug lords that run rampant through the city's notorious flavela's (slums)...