A Morte Comanda o Cangaço

A Morte Comanda o Cangaço

Film poster
Directed by Carlos Coimbra
Walter Guimarães Motta
Produced by Marcelo de Miranda Torres
Written by Carlos Coimbra
Walter Guimarães Motta
Francisco Pereira da Silva
Starring Alberto Ruschel
Aurora Duarte
Milton Ribeiro
Music by Enrico Simonetti
Cinematography Tony Rabatoni
Edited by Carlos Coimbra
Production
company
Aurora Duarte Produções Cinematográficas
Distributed by Cinedistri
Release dates
  • 28 December 1960[1]
Running time
100 minutes
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese

A Morte Comanda o Cangaço is a 1960 Brazilian Western action film directed by Carlos Coimbra and Walter Guimarães Motta.[2] Shot in Pernambuco, it stars Alberto Ruschel, Aurora Duarte, and Milton Ribeiro in a fiction about cangaço.[3] It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] The film was also selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[5]

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References

  1. "A Morte Comanda o Cangaço" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  2. Tolentino, Célia Aparecida Ferreira (2001). O rural no cinema brasileiro. UNESP. pp. 85–86. ISBN 9788571393752.
  3. Ramos, Fernão; Miranda, Luiz Felipe (2000). Enciclopédia do cinema brasileiro. Senac. ISBN 9788573590937.
  4. "IMDB.com: Awards for A Morte Comanda o Cangaço". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  5. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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