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A Morte Comanda o Cangaço

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A Morte Comanda o Cangaço
Film poster
Directed byCarlos Coimbra
Walter Guimarães Motta
Written byCarlos Coimbra
Walter Guimarães Motta
Francisco Pereira da Silva
Produced byMarcelo de Miranda Torres
StarringAlberto Ruschel
Aurora Duarte
Milton Ribeiro
CinematographyTony Rabatoni
Edited byCarlos Coimbra
Music byEnrico Simonetti
Production
company
Aurora Duarte Produções Cinematográficas
Distributed byCinedistri
Release date
  • 28 December 1960 (1960-12-28)[1]
Running time
100 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

A Morte Comanda o Cangaço is a 1960 Brazilian Western action film directed and co-written 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 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[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

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  1. ^ "A Morte Comanda o Cangaço" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. 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 20 January 2010.
  5. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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