High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Elite Squad (Portuguese: Tropa de Elite, pronounced: lit. "Elite Troop") is a 2007 Brazilian film directed by Jose Padilha. The film is a semi-fictional account of the BOPE (Portuguese: Batalhao de Operacoes Policiais Especiais), the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police. It is the second feature film and first fiction film of Padilha, who had previously directed the documentary Bus 174. The script was written by Braulio Mantovani, based on the book Elite da Tropa by sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares and two former BOPE captains, Andre Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не имеет самостоятельного сюжета, не...