Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro

Released on
Western
Runtime
102 mins
(10 votes)

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

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