Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro — Plot

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
• December 23, 1969
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Genres
• Western
• Director
• Giovanni Fago

Viva Cangaceiro — Cast

Tomas Milian Espedito/Miguein "The Redeemer" Ugo Pagliai Vicenzo Howard Ross Vincent Helfer/Hoffman Eduardo Fajardo Governor Branco Leo Anchóriz Colonel Minas Mário Gusmão Black Devil

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Alfredo Santacruz Jesús Guzmán