Viva Cangaceiro
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
as Espedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
Ugo Pagliai
as Vicenzo
Howard Ross
as Vincent Helfer/Hoffman
Eduardo Fajardo
as Governor Branco
Leo Anchóriz
as Colonel Minas
Mário Gusmão
as Black Devil
Alfredo Santacruz
as
Jesús Guzmán
as
Claudio Scarchilli
as
José Carlos Farias
as
