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 …

• Giovanni FagoDirector
• Rafael Romero MarchentScreenplay
• José Luis JerezScreenplay
• Bernardino ZapponiScreenplay
• Riz OrtolaniOriginal Music Composer

• Tomas MilianEspedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
• Ugo PagliaiVicenzo
• Howard RossVincent Helfer/Hoffman
• Eduardo FajardoGovernor Branco
• Leo AnchórizColonel Minas
• Mário GusmãoBlack Devil
• Alfredo SantacruzCast
• Jesús GuzmánCast
• Claudio ScarchilliCast
• José Carlos FariasCast
• M. de MouraCast
• Irio FantiniCast