Viva Cangaceiro

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 EspeditoThe Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesnt really understand what hes 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