Antonio das Mortes

Antonio das Mortes is a 1969 Brazilian film written and directed by Glauber Rocha, a loose sequel to his own 1964 film Black God, White Devil, following the title character, a hired gunman famed for killing messianic bandit leaders known as cangaceiros in Brazil's arid sertao, who is summoned to kill one more such leader but instead turns his gun on the landowners and police who hired him. As a central work of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, the film uses the western-inflected showdown between Antonio and the old order to dramatize Rocha's revolutionary politics and his call for the poor of Brazil's northeast to rise against their oppressors. It won the award for Best Director at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.