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MOVIE
8.0
HD
A Matadeira
1994Documentary, War, History16min
Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred by a powerful army until the death of the last of its 30,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos massacre from an English cannon, nicknamed by the backlands people "A Matadeira", which was transported by twenty teams of oxen through the backlands to fire a single shot.
Cast & Crew
Pedro Cardoso
Antônio Carlos Falcão
Ben Berardi
Carlos Palombini
David Camargo
Dejayr Figueira
Irani Zucato
Nelson Ebelt
Régius Brandão
Roberto Birindelli
Zé da Terreira
Débora Finocchiaro
Lisa Becker
Carlos Cunha Filho
