Genres

Documentary , War , History

Duration

16 min

Director

Jorge Furtado

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

January 2, 1994

A Matadeira

Original title: A Matadeira

Synopsis

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.