A Morte Comanda o Cangaço is a 1960 Brazilian Western action film directed and co-written by Carlos Coimbra and Walter Guimarães Motta. 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. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. 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.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Cast Alberto Ruschel as Raimundo Vieira Aurora Duarte as Florind Milton Ribeiro as Capitano Silvero Maria Augusta Costa Leite as Dona Cidinha Gilberto Marques as Coll. Nesinho Ruth de Souza Lyris Castellani Apolo Monteiro Edson França José Mercaldi Leo de Avelar Jean Lafront
See also List of submissions to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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