A Morte Comanda o Cangaço (1960)
- Directed by
- Carlos Coimbra
- Genre
- Western film, action film, docudrama
- Country
- Brazil
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A group of bandits called cangaceiros roam the Brazilian northeast in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The story follows their violent encounters and struggles for survival.
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What happens
A Morte Comanda o Cangaço is a 1960 Brazilian Western action film directed and co-written by Carlos Coimbra and Walter Guimarães Motta. Shot in Pernambuco, it stars Alberto Ruschel, Aurora Duarte, and Milton Ribeiro in a fiction about cangaço in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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