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Overview
Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred by a powerful army until the death of the last of its 30,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos massacre from an English cannon, nicknamed by the backlands people "A Matadeira", which was transported by twenty teams of oxen through the backlands to fire a single shot.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 2, 1994
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil
- Production
- Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
- Cast
- Roberto Birindelli,Antônio Carlos Falcão,Régius Brandão,Pedro Cardoso,Carlos Palombini,Dejayr Figueira,David Camargo,Nelson Ebelt,Zé da Terreira,Débora Finocchiaroand 4 more
- Director
- Jorge Furtado
- Writer
- Jorge Furtado
- Producer
- Nora Goulart
- Cinematography
- Alex Sernambi
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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