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Viva Cangaceiro

★ 6.7 (12 votes) | 1969 | 1h 42m
Western
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 …

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date December 23, 1969
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Medusa Distribuzione, Tritone Cinematografica

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