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Viva Cangaceiro (1969)

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 …

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Top billed cast

Tomas MilianEspedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
Ugo PagliaiVicenzo
Howard RossVincent Helfer/Hoffman
Eduardo FajardoGovernor Branco
Leo AnchórizColonel Minas
Mário GusmãoBlack Devil
Alfredo Santacruz
Jesús Guzmán
Claudio Scarchilli
José Carlos Farias

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