Viva Cangaceiro
1969 · 102 min · Western
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 …
- Director
- Giovanni Fago
- Writers
- Rafael Romero Marchent, Antonio Troiso, José Luis Jerez, Giovanni Fago, Bernardino Zapponi
- Released
- December 23, 1969
- Language
- Italian
Cast
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