Antonio das Mortes

God created the land, Satan built the fences

A politically charged, formally inventive Western that uses genre conventions to interrogate class, morality, and revolutionary consciousness through a hired killer's spiritual transformation.

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.