Viva Cangaceiro
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- Runtime
- 102 mins
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 …
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 …
Cast
- Tomas Milian
- Ugo Pagliai
- Howard Ross
- Eduardo Fajardo
- Howard Ross
- Leo Anchóriz
- Mário Gusmão
- Alfredo Santacruz
- Jesús Guzmán
- Claudio Scarchilli
- José Carlos Farias
- Bernardete Dinorá de Carvalho
- M. de Moura
- Irio Fantini
- Quinto Gambi
- Aldo Gasparri
- Bob Leo
- Goffredo Unger
Director
- Giovanni Fago
Producers
Screenwriter
- Bernardino Zapponi
- José Luis Jerez
- Rafael Romero Marchent