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Titre original :

O Cangaceiro

Durée :

1h 44min

Date de sortie :

December 1969

Réalisé par : Giovanni Fago
Ecrit par : José Luis Jerez, Rafael Romero Marchent, Bernardino Zapponi, Rafael Romero Marchent, Giovanni Fago, José Luis Jerez, Antonio Troiso

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 …