![Viva Cangaceiro](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/poreJSjaBKtC0QdLouCcMYwuDGK.jpg)
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 …
Writer | Antonio Troiso |
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Director | Giovanni Fago |
Actor | Tomas Milian, Ugo Pagliai, Howard Ross |
Country | Spain |
Production | Producciones Cinematográficas D.I.A. |