Viva Cangaceiro

O Cangaceiro

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 …

Direção

Giovanni Fago

Roteiro

Bernardino Zapponi

Roteiro

José Luis Jerez

Roteiro

Rafael Romero Marchent

Status

Lançado

Lançamento

23/12/1969

Idioma original

Italiano