[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:20, topic:223”]I finally saw this film, fan subbed version of the Italian dvd.
Very good film, like said before it’s not a real western but close enough for me to have it in my western collection. In style it’s close to Tepepa and other revolution westerns but as it’s set in South-America it doesn’t feel that much of a western as other revolution films. Music is also mainly South-American style rhytm music which is different but fitting for the film. Tomas Milian is good in the main role as a peasant who turns to religios zealot bandit after the army kills his cow.
Pretty weird film at times and only western I’ve seen with italo-american gangsters with tommy guns 8)
My rating: 8/10[/quote]
Exactly my feelings and i agree with the rating
There’s some interesting info at O Cangaceiro | Encyclopedia.com on the original Brazilian film that first used this name and the Brazilian Cangaço films that it spawned alongside the US Western. Here’s a snippet:
“Apart from its repercussion both at home and abroad, O Cangaceiro has also the merit of giving rise to the Cangaço genre of film. Cangaceiro is the name given to a particular type of bandit who used to roam the Northeast of the country in the early 20th Century, spreading terror and sacking small villages. Common to most Cangaço films are the scenario of the rustic backlands of northeastern Brazil, the disadvantaged as characters and a confrontation with police forces as the principal story line. O Cangaceiro was also the first in a series of “nordestern” or “northeastern” films, which ran a parallel line with the North American Western films; it was followed in this vein by a number of noteworthy films, the best known of which was Deus e O Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil ), by Glauber Rocha.”
Black God… and Antonio das Mortes are amazing films. It’s a crime that Antonio is not widely available on DVD (Black God… had an excellent Brazilian release some years ago and is now out in Europe as well); of course, the same can be said for more of Glauber Rocha’s works and for O’Cangaceiro itself.
As reported in Glittering Images’ Western all’Italiana, Antonio was promoted in Italy like a Euro-Western - check out the first of these Italian posters: [url]UFABETเว็บตรงไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์ แทงบอลออนไลน์ บาคาร่า
Shit, Antonio das Mortes, that’s so damn long ago. I would like to see both films again. Antonio is also a main protagonist in Deus e o Diabo …
And he surely is something like a SW character, but Glauber Rocha’s films are far away from a typical SW. They are like a Godard film infiltrated with some western motives and political agitation.
Note to other editors:
There is a problem with the film’s page: the title of the movie is misspelled, it should be Cangaceiro, 0’ (so not with ç)
Can this be altered easily or do I have to create a new page (copying the contents) with the correct title ?
[quote=“Lindberg, post:30, topic:223”]I’ll soon have the fansubbed version of this one, looking forward to watching it
Isn’t this a relatively unknown SW, despite the inclusion of Tomas Milian in the cast?
Maybe because it’s only recently been released on dvd, and perhaps it was never available anywhere on vhs before?
Anyway, I checked and it had a theatrical release in Sweden in 1971
Scherp you say it’s very violent, but apparently this film managed to get past the censors uncut in my country :D[/quote]
Violence - it’s violent in the sense most spaghetti westerns are violent: many people are shot when they’re defenceless etc. (I think about that one particular scene with the cangaceiros slaughtering a complete police regiment); it’s not very graphic or sadistic, there’s not much blood
famous/unknown - I think it’s one of the lesser known Zapata westerns (I had never heard of it until a few years ago!), but Fago thinks it’s famous all over the world (he says this in an interview added as an extra to this release; I’ll talk about this in the DVD Revies I still have to write)
Whooo! Did not expect to see some discussion about portuguese typing rules!
Anyway, I just watched this movie. It’s very nice one, not sure if there is a reason to be classified as spaghetti, but very nice indeed!
Here some info about Cangaço history, weapons, etc:
Sorry I do not Know if anyone was starded a new topic about this movie before
I have the french dvd with subs in french, does anyone know about something in english subtitles at least those.
The movie is somehow inspired in the live of Lampião, the most famous cangaçeiro but very little . The cangançeiros were Brazilians outlaw, normaly poor people that became outlaws to survive poverty, and the almost slavery state dictaded by the “coroneis” the rich landlords (very political stuff).
This movie is very soft comparing with the violence of those time, Lampião when it was caught by the police got his head chop off with all is gang and put in exhibiton from town to town, something normal does days in nordest Brezil (we are talking 1938).
It’s strange to ear Italian in a movie that happens in Brasil, (well in a way no more than most SW happening in the Us, but that’s why they are SW) but this one was filmed in Location, and got some important budget for the time.
Tomas Milian (an actor from actors studio new york do not forget it) is very good but Howard Ross so so, being filmed in location was important for the quality and veracity of the film
I liked and it’s the one time I can have a SW with a Portuguese connection. For more realistic stuff check the 1953 Brazilian movie with the same name, or the Glauber Rocha movies form the sixties.
The director Giovanni Fago made two SW before this one, and after this nothing revelant, it must have been a floop at the time, I guess
Just because it isn’t set in the west doesn’t always mean it’s not a Western. Look at the outlaw vs. government theme. Very Western. Mostly Zapata Western though. I’d still say man pride and vengeance is a western.
