Viva Cangaceiro (movie)
O Cangaceiro- User score: 6.5
- Production country: Spain, Italy
- Producer: Giovanni Fago
- Production companies: Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Medusa Distribuzione, Tritone Cinematografica
- Genre: Western
- Release date: 12/23/1969
- Run time: 102 min.
Movie description
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 …
