Viva Cangaceiro

1969 | 102 minutes | 6.5 ★ (10)

Viva Cangaceiro
  • Overview

    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 …

  • Release Date

    23 December 1969

  • DirectingGiovanni Fago
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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