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Viva Cangaceiro
Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro

6.7/10
December 23, 1969
102 minutes
Giovanni Fago
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 …

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Movie Details

Release Date

December 23, 1969

Runtime

102 minutes

Director

Giovanni Fago

Rating

6.7/10

Production Companies

Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A. Medusa Distribuzione Tritone Cinematografica

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