Viva Cangaceiro (1969)
Original title: O Cangaceiro
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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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Tomas MilianEspedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
Ugo PagliaiVicenzo
Howard RossVincent Helfer/Hoffman
Eduardo FajardoGovernor BrancoHoward RossHoffmann
Leo AnchórizColonel Minas
Mário GusmãoBlack DevilAlfredo Santacruz
Jesús Guzmán
Claudio ScarchilliJosé Carlos FariasBernardete Dinorá de CarvalhoKeywords
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What is Viva Cangaceiro about?
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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Viva Cangaceiro has a runtime of 102 minutes.
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