Quilombo (1984)
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Antônio Pompêo, Zezé Motta, Tony Tornado, Vera Fischer
At a sugar plantation in Pernambuco around 1650, enslaved people rebel and head for Palmares, where a nation of escaped former slaves resists a colonial siege.
The story
Around 1650, a group of enslaved people rebels at a sugar plantation in Pernambuco and heads to Quilombo dos Palmares. There, a nation of escaped former slaves resists the colonial siege. Ganga Zumba, an African prince, is among them.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
At a sugar plantation in Pernambuco, around 1650, a group of enslaved people rebel and head for Quilombo dos Palmares, where a nation of escaped former slaves resists the colonial siege. Among them is Ganga Zumba, an African prince. Some time later, his heir and godson, Zumbi, challenges the conciliatory ideas of Ganga Zumba (the Prince) and faces the largest army ever seen in Brazilian colonial history.
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