O Cangaceiro - The outlaws

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Movie
German title O Cangaceiro - The outlaws
Original title O Cangaceiro
Country of production Brazil
original language Portuguese
Publishing year 1953
length 105 (German version 95) minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Lima Barreto
script Lima Barreto,
Rachel de Queiroz
production Cid Leite du Silva for Companhia Cinematográfico Vera Cruz
music Gabriel Migliori
camera Chick Fowle
cut Giuseppe Baldacconi ,
Lúsico Braun ,
Oswald Hafenrichter
occupation

O Cangaceiro is a 1953 Brazilian adventure film set in the Sertão in the 1930s . It is the first Brazilian feature film to gain international fame, to which the theme song Mulher Rendeira also contributed. The film title is derived from the term Cangaceiro . At the 1953 Cannes International Film Festival , the film received the award for best adventure film.

action

Captain Galdino Ferreira's gang terrorizes the population in the poor villages of the Sertão. In a robbery, they kidnap the teacher Olivia in order to extort a ransom. When both Ferreira and his deputy Teodoro fall in love with her, the gang splits.

Historical background, production history

Right down to the surname of Captain Ferreira, the film is based on the activities of a gang of cangaceiros that operated in the Sertão in the 1920s / 30s under the leadership of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva , known as Lampião ( The Lamp ).

The production was not shot on the site of the historical event in Sertão, but in Vargem Grande do Sul in the state of São Paulo and the film studio in São Bernardo do Campo .

publication

Premieres:

  • Brazil: January 20, 1953
  • Portugal: December 8, 1953
  • Federal Republic of Germany: January 8, 1954
  • USA: September 2, 1954 (as The Bandit of Brazil )

TV broadcasts:

  • Germany: January 28, 1967 ( ARD )
  • GDR: September 16, 1972 ( DFF 2 )

criticism

“The primeval ballad of the good robber and the beautiful girl, long burned as a must-have in routine wild wests, is experiencing a fascinating revival through the unused picture and music rhythms in the faces of a newly discovered reservoir of gangsters (the northern Brazilian desperados). One of the films that one cannot confuse among hundreds. "

- Der Spiegel , No. 6 of February 3, 1954

Tradition, adaptations

For unknown reasons, the film has never been edited on video or DVD in Brazil either. The German version is only 95 minutes long, which is a good 10 minutes shorter than the original. Although the film is a classic of Brazilian film art, it has not yet been shown on ARTE .

O Cangaceiro became the model for several follow-up productions, such as A Morte Comando o Cangaço (BRA 1961, R .: Carlos Coimbra , Walter Guimarães Motta ) or Viva Cangaceiro (I 1970, R .: Giovanni Fago ).

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