God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun has nothing to with a western. When Rocha made Antonio das Mortes, however, “he set out to ‘recover the atmosphere’ of the American western” (Frayling). He is said to be especially inspired by Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country (Grant and Frayling). There is no mention of a SW influence on Antonio das Mortes in what little I have read on Rocha. But I cannot see how he could not have been influenced by these films. Antonio in my opinion has a strong resemblance to La resa di conti. It premiered in Brazil in 1966, so Rocha might very well have seen it before he made Antonio das Mortes.