Very solid Nordestern (Western in Braziian Northeast) on traditional family struggles and honor vengeance. Wonderful cinematography and music score. Very well filmed and editted. Nelson Pereira dos Santos was effectively a genius! It is hard to believe that he made this good Western in these conditions: the crew went to Bahia in order to shoot Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), but it had rained too much and it was supposed to be a dry weather to produce that film. Therefore, he improvise another movie, with no detailed script and mostly extras as actors. Nelson Pereira dos Santos used to present this movie as a draft of a film. Well, his draft is by far better than the well planned films made by most directors in the world...
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