A Matadeira
Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred 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 massacre 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.
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Plot Summary
In the dense and mysterious forests of Portuguese folklore, a tale unfolds of a reclusive woman known as 'A Matadeira' (The Killer). Rumored to possess supernatural abilities and a dark past, she lives in isolation, feared by the local villagers. When a series of unsettling events begins to plague the community, suspicion falls upon her, igniting a tense investigation into her true nature and the secrets she guards.
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