A Matadeira

Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and m...acred 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 m...acre 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.