Viva 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 …
Status: Released
Released Date: 1969-12-23
Runtime: 102 mins
Director: Giovanni Fago
Spoken language: Italiano
Genres: Western
Original title: Viva Cangaceiro
Production Companies: Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A., Medusa Distribuzione, Tritone Cinematografica
Production Countries: Spain, Italy
Cast
Tomas Milian
Ugo Pagliai
Howard Ross
Eduardo Fajardo
Leo Anchóriz
Mário Gusmão
Alfredo Santacruz
Jesús Guzmán
Claudio Scarchilli
José Carlos Farias
Bernardete Dinorá de Carvalho
M. de Moura
Irio Fantini
Quinto Gambi
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