Viva Cangaceiro

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1969 / 102min.

Rating6.5

Genres

Western

Synopsis

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …

Directors

Actors

Tomas Milian

Howard Ross

Ugo Pagliai

Mário Gusmão

Jesús Guzmán

Eduardo Fajardo

Claudio Scarchilli

Quinto Gambi

Alfredo Santacruz

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