Antonio das Mortes

Name: Antonio das Mortes
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Western
Released: 1969-06-14
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Odete Lara, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Sante Scaldaferri, Lorival Pariz, Conceição Senna

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Release Date

6/14/1969

Runtime

100 mins

Genres

Action Drama Crime Western

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Portuguese

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A radically stylized Brazilian western that weaponizes melodrama and genre convention against the powerful, following a hitman's violent awakening to the injustice he's been serving. Glorious and unsettling, it swings wildly between comedy and tragedy while the form itself becomes the argument.