The Guns (Portuguese: Os Fuzis) is a 1964 Brazilian-Argentine drama film directed by Ruy Guerra.

Plot

The plot is divided into two stories; both are set in the Northeast Region of Brazil in 1963. In the first, peasant people follow an ox deemed as sacred, eating it in the end. The second story follows soldiers as they are sent to prevent poor people to plunder local warehouses.

Cast

Production

Originally, Ruy Guerra planned to film it on Greece but local authorities denied him from doing it in 1958. The plot would revolve around soldiers trying to defend a village from a pack of wolves. In 1964, he produced The Guns, with its filming taking place in Bahia and adapting its screenplay to incorporate Brazilian culture elementes.