Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) on Netflix
A prison riot in Rio de Janeiro pulls Roberto Nascimento into a political dispute with officials and paramilitary groups, while Captain André Matias is transferred to the Military Police.
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Plot summary
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor. However, due to the increasing popularity of Nascimento, the Governor invites him to team-up with the intelligence area of the Secretary of Security. Along the years, Fraga, who is married with Nascimento's former wife, is elected State Representative and Nascimento's son Rafael has issues with his biological father. Meanwhile Nascimento and the BOPE expel the drug dealers from several slums but another enemy arises: the militia led by Major Rocha and supported by the Governor, the Secretary of Security and politicians interested in votes. Nascimento is manipulated to help this group, vanquishing the criminals in the slums and poor communities; then the corrupt group of police officers is free to exploit the poor population.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
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- For the Bangu 1 prison scenes, forty professionals spent two months building a 500m² detention centre from art director Tiago Marques's notes because they were refused permission to photograph the real building, and shot there across the four days of the 2010 carnival.
- Filming at Morro Dona Marta in Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo borough used two helicopters and heavy guns, and the neighbours thought a real shoot-out was going on.
- Refused permission to shoot a scene at the House of Congress in Brasília, the production built a fake Ethics Committee inside the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro and recorded there on April 15.
- Before shooting, the cast trained under Fátima Toledo (all except a pregnant Maria Ribeiro), went through a Rio boot camp run by security adviser Paulo Storani with BOPE and CATI members, and Wagner Moura took jiu-jitsu lessons from fighter Rickson Gracie.
