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Viva Cangaceiro (1969)
Directed by Giovanni Fago
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 …
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Tomás Milián | Ugo Pagliai | Eduardo Fajardo | Renato Rossini | 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