Genres
Production Companies
Medusa Distribuzione
Tritone Cinematografica
Viva Cangaceiro (O 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 …
Key Crew
Director: Giovanni Fago
Screenplay: Rafael Romero Marchent, José Luis Jerez, Bernardino Zapponi
Story: Antonio Troiso, José Luis Jerez, Giovanni Fago, Rafael Romero Marchent
Top 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
Alfredo Santacruz
