Often violent, mostly poetic, Caingangue is a touchstone in Brazilian filmography. It has the bitter feeling of our frontier with Paraguay, where there is no law except gun power.
"Caingangue" is a Brazilian western ("feijoada" western) that takes place in Mato Grosso (deep into the Brazilian hinterland), in modern times.The story is a staple of the classic western.
Caingangue was a beautiful western, short in plot but incredibly unique in execution. This was a story of a young man who lost his father in an ambush, was attacked himself and left to die.
