Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro

1969 · 102 min · ★ 6.8 · Western

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 …

Directed by Giovanni Fago · Written by Bernardino Zapponi

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Tomas Milian Espedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
Ugo Pagliai Vicenzo
Howard Ross Vincent Helfer/Hoffman
Eduardo Fajardo Governor Branco
Leo Anchóriz Colonel Minas
Mário Gusmão Black Devil
Alfredo Santacruz
Jesús Guzmán
Claudio Scarchilli
José Carlos Farias
M. de Moura
Irio Fantini

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