Viva Cangaceiro (1969)

Name: Viva Cangaceiro
Genre: Western
Released: 1969-12-23
Cast: Tomas Milian, Leo Anchóriz, Howard Ross, Eduardo Fajardo, Ugo Pagliai

Western

Release Date:	1969, December 23
Directors:	Giovanni Fago
Countries:	Spain, Italy
Production:	Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Medusa Distribuzione, Medusa Distribuzione, Tritone Cinematografica, Tritone Cinematografica
Cast:	Tomas Milian, Leo Anchóriz, Howard Ross, Eduardo Fajardo, Ugo Pagliai, Mário Gusmão, Quinto Gambi

Overview:

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 …

Keywords:

rebel village oil brazilian northeast

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Critics Rating:	67

Viva Cangaceiro (1969)

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