Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro (1969)

TMDb

6.7

23/12/1969 • 1h 42m
original-title

O Cangaceiro

status

Released

production-companies

Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A.

Medusa Distribuzione

Tritone Cinematografica

original-language

Italian

budget

-

revenue

-

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 …

production-countries

Spain

Italy

spoken-languages

Italian

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