A Matadeira

A Matadeira (1994)

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.

Date of release
1994-01-02
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Documentary, War, History
Director
Jorge Furtado

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