Viva Cangaceiro

6.8

Italy

Western

102 min

1969

Tomas Milian Goffredo Unger Quinto Gambi Claudio Scarchilli Jesús Guzmán Mário Gusmão Leo Anchóriz Eduardo Fajardo Howard Ross Ugo Pagliai Baby do Brasil (Baby Consuelo)

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 …