Description
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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Release Date1969
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Runtime1 hr 42 min
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Languageit
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Rating6.7 (12)
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Genres
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DirectorGiovanni Fago
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CastTomas MilianUgo PagliaiHoward RossEduardo FajardoLeo AnchórizMário GusmãoAlfredo SantacruzJesús GuzmánClaudio ScarchilliJosé Carlos FariasBernardete Dinorá de CarvalhoM. de MouraIrio FantiniQuinto GambiAldo GasparriBob LeoGoffredo Unger
