Os Bandeirantes (English: The Pioneers) is a black-and-white 1960 French-Brazilian adventure film directed by Marcel Camus. The film is also known in English as Gold of the Amazon.
Plot In Brazil, a French diamond miner is shot, robbed, and left for dead by a supposed friend. He sets out on a mission of revenge, but along the way falls in love with a Brazilian woman.
Cast Raymond Loyer as Jean Lourdes de Oliveira as Suzana Elga Andersen as Elga Léa Garcia as Hermina Almiro do Esperito Santo as Baija-Flora John Reich as Curd
Production The film was partially shot in Brasília, Canindé-Ceará, Fortaleza, Belém and Salvador .
Reception The film was rather well received but not as well as Camus's precedent Brazilian film, Black Orpheus. Camus's other Brazilian film would be Bahia, in 1976.
References
External links Os Bandeirantes IMDB