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Sat 07 Jul 2008Lionising the bad boys from Brazil
Jose Padilha, director of 'Elite Squad', the most expensive and arguably the most violent Brazilian film ever made, tells Andrew Purcellwhy he made it
JOSE PADILHA has been sued by the police and shot at by drug-dealers. He has been called a fascist ideologue and a communist provocateur. His film, Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite), has divided Brazil, igniting a debate about police brutality that still rages, a year after pirate DVDs of the movie first showed up on the streets.
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