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A Matadeira (S) (S)

Original title: A Matadeira
Year: 1994
Running time: 16 min.
Country: Brazil
Director: Jorge Furtado
Screenwriter: Jorge Furtado
Cast: Documentary, Self: Lisa Becker, Pedro Cardoso, Antônio Carlos Falcão, Débora Finocchiaro, Régius Brandão. Voice: Carlos Cunha
Music: Léo Henkin
Cinematography: Alex Sernambi
Producer: Casa de Cinema PoA
Genre: Documentary | Short Film
Synopsis: Canudos was a little village in the impoverished Brazilian Northeast, founded by messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred to the death of the last of its 30 thousand inhabitants by a powerful army on October 5th 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos massacre through the story of an English cannon, nicknamed “MATADEIRA" (Killer) by the locals, and which was transported across the Northeastern back country by twenty-one yokes of oxen in order to shoot one single shot.

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A Matadeira (S) (S)

1994

Jorge Furtado