A Matadeira

(1994)

★ 8 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary, War, History

Year: 1994

Runtime: 16 мин

Country: Brazil

Director: Jorge Furtado

Cast: Pedro Cardoso, Antônio Carlos Falcão, Ben Berardi, Carlos Palombini, David Camargo, Dejayr Figueira, Irani Zucato, Nelson Ebelt, Régius Brandão, Roberto Birindelli

Plot

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.