Antonio das Mortes (1969)
Directed by Glauber Rocha
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
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What critics compared Antonio das Mortes to
Brazil has its own history of revisionist Westerns, including Glauber Rocha’s “Antonio das Mortes,” a classic of the Third Cinema movement that operated as an alternative to Hollywood’s cinema hegemony.