Documentary--with reconstituted scenes and interviews--about some of the more than 50 women who were in Cangaço, a phenomenon of social banditry from the Northeastern region of Brazil in the early 20th century.
A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.
The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and outlaws movement. Interspersed with testimonials, authentic sequences of films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abraham, an Arab peddler who managed to film the...
Dadá, Corisco's partner, talks about her experience among the cangaceiros of Lampião, highlighting their form of organization as a group, their habits and behaviors, in addition to the struggle for survival, codes of honor, guerrilla tactics and loves.
