A Matadeira (S)

Canudos was a little village in the impoverished Brazilian Northeast, founded by messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred to the death of the last of its 30 thousand inhabitants by a powerful army on October 5th 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos massacre through the story of an English cannon, nicknamed “MATADEIRA" (Killer) by the locals, and which was transported across the Northeastern back country by twenty-one yokes of oxen in order to shoot one single shot.