Alemão (2014)

Directed by

José Eduardo Belmonte

Genre

drama film, action film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 106 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of residents and police officers navigate the days leading up to a military police invasion of a Rio de Janeiro favela. The film follows their interactions and struggles as the violence escalates.

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What happens

Alemão is a 2014 Brazilian action-drama film directed by José Eduardo Belmonte starring Antônio Fagundes, Cauã Reymond, Caio Blat, Gabriel Braga Nunes, Marcello Melo Jr. and Milhem Cortaz. The story presented in the film takes place a few days before the invasion of the Complexo do Alemão by the military police, which occurred on November 26, 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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