A MatadeiraMovie
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.
About A Matadeira
A Matadeira is a 1994 documentary, war, history movie directed by Jorge Furtado.
The production information lists a runtime of 16m, production credits from Brazil, an original language code of PT.
The credited cast includes Pedro Cardoso, Antônio Carlos Falcão, Ben Berardi, Carlos Palombini. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
