O Cangaceiro (1969)

1h 42min | Western | Dec 23, 1969 | Released

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 (crazy?) hermit who thinks he has been sent (= espedito) 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 (and of course double-crossed) by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …

Director: Giovanni Fago

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Writer(s): Bernardino Zapponi Rafael Romero Marchent José Luis Jerez Aloza

Story: Rafael Romero Marchent Antonio Troiso Giovanni Fago José Luis Jerez Aloza