Viva Cangaceiro (1969)

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 …

Release Date : December 23, 1969

Runtime : 102m

Genre : Western  

Companies : Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Medusa Distribuzione, Tritone Cinematografica

Countries : Spain, Italy

Keywords : rebel, village, oil, brazilian northeast