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 …
Director and cast
- Giovanni Fago Director
- Tomas Milian as Espedito/Miguein "The Redeemer"
- Ugo Pagliai as Vicenzo
- Renato Rossini as Vincent Helfer/Hoffman
- Howard Ross as Vincent Helfer/Hoffman
- Eduardo Fajardo as Governor Branco
- Leo Anchóriz as Colonel Minas
- Mário Gusmão as Black Devil
- Alfredo Santacruz Cast
- Jesús Guzmán Cast
- Claudio Scarchilli Cast
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