COBRA VERDE

Francisco Manoel da Silva is a farmer in the Brazilian Sertao, which is suffering a drought. After having killed the boss of the mine he worked in because the boss wouldn’t pay his men, he travels around dressed as a bandit and is feared by all. One day hemanages to prevent one of Don Octavio Coutinho’s slaves from escaping; Don Octavio immediately hires him to supervise the work on his immense plantation. But when Don Octavio discovers that Francisco has gotten his three daughters pregnant, he sends him to Africa to take slaves he needs to work his fields. In Africa, Francisco first succeeds in obtaining an enormous number of slaves from a king, but is later sentenced to death. He is freed by the king’s brother, who in return asks for Francisco’s help in organizing a revolt against the sovereign. Francisco seems to have control of the situation once again, until the new king, who had in the meantime appointed him viceroy, sends him a cargo of cripples just as Brazil is about to vote to abolish slavery.