Grande Sertão: Veredas

Grande Sertão: Veredas

Limited Series 1985 · 25 eps · ★ 7.8 · Western, Drama

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A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.

Created by Walter George Durst

Network: TV Globo

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