Overview
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 …
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 23, 1969
- Original language
- Italian
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Spain, Italy
- Cast
- Jesús Guzmán,Baby do Brasil (Baby Consuelo),Claudio Scarchilli,Howard Ross,Eduardo Fajardo,Tomas Milian,José Carlos Farias,Quinto Gambi,Mário Gusmão,M. de Mouraand 7 more
- Director
- Giovanni Fago
- Music
- Riz Ortolani
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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