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 …

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

Claudio Scarchilli

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José Carlos Farias

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M. de Moura

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Irio Fantini