Movie Details
Original Language:Portuguese
Executive Producers:Nora Goulart
Production Companies:Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
Cast & Crew
F
Flávia Aguiar
Costume Design
N
Nora Goulart
Executive Producer
A Matadeira
DirectorJorge Furtado
16 minHistory,
Documentary,
War
Plot
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.
