Polícia Federal: A Lei É para Todos (2017)

Original title

Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos

Directed by

Marcelo Antunez

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 111 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows federal police investigators as they work on Operation Car Wash, a major corruption probe in Brazil. It shows their efforts from behind the scenes, focusing on the police perspective rather than the politicians or businessmen involved.

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What happens

Polícia Federal: A Lei É para Todos (English: Federal Police: The Law Is for Everyone) is a Brazilian thriller movie of 2017. It was directed by Marcelo Antunez, produced by Tomislav Blazic and scripted by Thomas Stavros and Gustavo Lipsztein. It was inspired by the book of the same name by Carlos Graieb and Ana Maria Santos. Starring Antônio Calloni, portrays Operation Car Wash from the point of view of the police investigators who acted in it. According to producer Tomislav Blazic, the plot will be divided into three films, which should be released each year, and the film is not a documentary and therefore, despite being based on the Lava Jato, has no obligation to be faithful to the reality. Costing 16 million reais, the film did not have the sponsors revealed, and did not use public resources. The names of the investors, about 25, were kept confidential, according to Blazic, at the request of the entrepreneurs, who made the disbursements as individuals. "They asked, I have to respect. Many films were made like this in Brazil and abroad." The film featured a cooperation agreement signed between Blazic and the Federal Police in 2015. The film had its premiere on August 28 for guests in Curitiba, among them judges Sergio Moro, Marcelo Bretas and prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, as well as delegates, police and justice officials, and premiered in Brazilian theaters at Independence Day holiday, September 7. In the first week, it attracted 461,783 to the theaters, about 430,000 from Thursday to Sunday, and another 30,000 in the premieres, with revenues of 7.8 million reais, being the second most watched movie behind the US movie It. It had the best debut of the year among national films. As of September 25, the number of people who went to the cinema to watch the movie surpassed one million, and by the end of the first day of October became the most viewed national movie of 2017 until then. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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