A Matadeira

A Matadeira (1994)

DocumentaryWarHistory

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.

Director: Jorge Furtado
Writer: Jorge Furtado

Casts

	Pedro Cardoso as
	Antônio Carlos Falcão as
	Ben Berardi as
	Carlos Palombini as
	David Camargo as
	Dejayr Figueira as
	Irani Zucato as
	Nelson Ebelt as
	Régius Brandão as
	Roberto Birindelli as
	Zé da Terreira as
	Débora Finocchiaro as
	Lisa Becker as
	Carlos Cunha Filho as

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