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A Matadeira (1994)
Directed by Jorge Furtado
Documentary, War, History · 16m
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
Pedro Cardoso
Roberto Birindelli
Crew
- Director
- Jorge Furtado
- Screenplay
- Jorge Furtado
- Director of Photography
- Alex Sernambi
- Editor
- Giba Assis Brasil
Details
- Release date
- 1994-01-02
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Documentary, War, History
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- English, Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil
- Production
- Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre