A Gunman Named Papaco (1985)

Interesting facts

Um Pistoleiro Chamado Papaco, also released as Os Amores de um Pistoleiro, is a 1986 Brazilian Western pornochanchada film directed by Mário Vaz Filho and starring Fernando Benini as the gunslinger Papaco. The film was produced in Boca do Lixo, an area in the Central Zone of São Paulo that was a stronghold of Brazilian underground cinema. The film became an internet meme in Brazil.

Background and release

Um Pistoleiro Chamado Papaco was directed by Mário Vaz Filho and produced by Olympus Filmes in Boca do Lixo (lit. 'Garbage's Mouth'), an area in downtown São Paulo that became a hub for underground cinema during the 1960s and 1980s. Starting in 1981, the pornochanchada genre "bloomed one last time" by incorporating explicit sex scenes, which were then becoming permitted. Mário began directing films in 1982.

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