Original subtitles

It will cost you.

Ladies and gentlemen...

you will have to pay...

if you want to sing the nah - ballad of Francisco Manoel...

the bandit known as Cobra Verde (Green Snake)...

the poorest of the poor...

the master of the slaves...

He Became Regent.

It was the μοναχικότερος from the lonely.

Francisco Manoel's mother sighs...

Francisco, I feel only aches and dread.

Francisco Manoel's mother cries...

Francisco, let me go. Soon I will die.

Eleven years of drought, the rocks are sick.

The world is dying. Evil is a trick.

I will die now. Be quiet or the bench is going to break from sadness.

Don't move. Stay still.

The water, the earth and the sun become black.

God in His perplexity, pretends it's His will.

Francisco, traveling, reading a line in the sky.

"Don't set your eyes on the salt sea shore.

Don't intellectualize. Don't argue. Don't ask me why.

The fate will send you a lover and a friend."

Based on "The Viceroy of Ουιντά" by Bruce Chatwin

Where's my money?

Where is my money? Where are the partners?

Go ahead! Next?

What the hell are you doing here again? I don't have the money for you!

What? No! I can't believe it!

You know that this week I don't get any wages.

The bank kept it all! Way!

There's no place here for filthy bloodsuckers.

You bastard! You lied to me!

I want to be awake when you die!

Enter the church!

The gun stays out!

I'm not kidding! Get it out or I'll throw you out!

I want something to eat. Tell your parents...

that Cobra Verde is here.

I don't have parents!

The bar is mine, and you don't scare me!

My name is Francisco Manoel.

And my name is euclides...

Name is euclides Alves da Silva Περναμπουκάνο Γουάντερλεϊ.

I am a da Silva.

Only my chest and my shoulders are crooked...

the nights I dream that you carry a mountain on my back.

You stand straighter than the whole town!

- I'm hungry. - I will bring you food.

How do you know so many things?

From our priest. And he learned them from our Bishop.

And from where comes the snow?

You'll see out there!

From the moon. There's always snow on the moon!

That's why it's always white! White and cold.

You have to look very carefully.

Why?

Because the moon takes the water out of the ocean.

And when night falls...

the tips of the mountains attract the snowflakes.

But only as much salt as we have in our tears.

And here on earth?

It's too far... you Need to move on to the west.

Four years on horseback and ten on foot.

And then there are the high mountains.

They rise higher and higher above the clouds.

And then above the clouds, then you find the snow.

It only falls in the night.

Like wings. But it only falls... From above the clouds.

And then the whole world turns light as a feather...

and white as snow!

Even the lions turn white and the eagles...

the rabbits get white fur...

and all the animals in the world are white!

And when you walk in the snow...

your feet don't have any weight.

And the little snowflakes flying in the air...

...like wings.

In about a year I'll sell the bar.

And then go west, and climb up the mountains.

I'm going east, to the sea.

The Sertao dries our hearts and kills the cattle.

You better be very careful when you go to the sea...

there are born the storms...

and it is the cradle of the snowflakes.

He said that the holy father!

My whole life I never had a friend...

Good to see you again.

Your money or your life!

My life.

Every day, you're walking 40 miles through the thorns...

And why are you barefoot? Don't you have shoes?

I don't trust the shoes.

And why don't you have a horse?

I wouldn't trust a horse. And not the people.

But I can't wait to get out of here to another world.

Stop him!

Don't go away. It'll only be worse.

Let him go!

You can find the post by himself!

You the barefoot... what's your name?

Da Silva, Francisco Manoel da Silva.

I'm colonel Otávio Κοτίνιο. I need a man like you.

I have six hundred slaves on a plantation with a sugar cane...

and my foreman is a jerk.

No one grows more sugar than me.

If that's not enough, you can always ask for more.

I've never had so many clothes.

You know, as I think that there are fields...

where I have cultivated sugar cane...

It makes me even more to think there are meadows...

where I don't graze my cattle!

And when I think of the half-breeds...

you haven't made pregnant yet, that is off-limits.

Be careful ladies, my friend!

And when will I get a job?

Oh, there's no rush. I'll show you everything.

You'll be the overseer here.

We harvest twice a year, it's that fertile.

I have other 40 sugar cane plantations like the one here.

I alone produce more sugar than the whole state of Pernambuco.

A hundred thousand tons a year.

And all of it goes to England, our enemy.

They have abolished the slave trade. Occupy our ships.

And yet, without us they wouldn't have any sugar.

And the way they buy sugar...

I think our rivers are overflowing with sugar.

It's hideous.

You're in charge here, too.

Here it melts the sugar cane...

and here gel the juice.

Boil the molasses to 120 degrees.

Above the boiling point of water.

The men mix it not to get stuck on the side.

And it's not an easy job.

Every so often a worker faints from the fumes.

But we have enough.

As you can see, the move from one cauldron to another.

Don't go away. Bring a knife!

You will need to cut another hand.

- We can't do anything? - This happens all the time.

Very strange. I haven't bred any children yet today.

So come on...

Francisco Manoel... you don't make your shoes?

Tell me, did you ever learn how to use a knife and fork?

The man from santao doesn't talk to anyone!

How many cows did you have?

I have nothing to lose. You don't need to talk to anyone!

I'll kill you all!

My daughters are all whores. Rutting with a barefoot cowboy!

Bonita, you whore! Bonita, slut!

The Bonita is pregnant!

Γουάντελεϊντ, only 15 years old and is pregnant!

Βαλκύρια...

Βαλκύρια, tell me the truth! Are you pregnant too? So?

No, I mean, yes... Dad, I don't know!

Cowboy! You bastard! You! What you have to say?

Ζαχαροκαλαμά... I Am the bandit Cobra Verde.

An outlaw in my house!

A thief, a robber, a criminal!

To put him on trial.

To kill him.

The guy is very dangerous.

We will have three or four dead before the clean up.

Why not marry him off to one of your daughters?

Besides, it's the best in plantation.

I would have done it...

if the pig had left and the three of them pregnant.

Send him to Africa to buy slaves.

What do you mean, "buy slaves"?

We don't have to take slaves from Africa in the last 10 years.

That's the point.

We're sending him to certain death.

The King of Dahomey is furious.

Anyone who sets foot in the region of running on the spot!

No white man has come back alive in the last 10 years.

And what if... and what if that son of a bitch make it?

He'll never make it.

I know the Africa. I know the gulf of Benin.

And if he succeeds, it will bring back so many slaves...

you can extend your plantations all the way to sergipe.

Why not marry him off with the elder daughter?

Yes! Take advantage of it as you can.

And as for the other two girls...

I'm sure you can find them son-in-law.

And if you don't like that...

send them to the Carmelites Nuns. The choice is yours.

I'll kill the pig!

I'll arrange everything with my friend the governor.

Da Silva... we have a special mission for you...

we can trust only to a capable man.

This is an official document...

that allows you to conduct a slave trade.

As you know, this trade is at a standstill.

The King of Dahomey has cut off our supplies...

but we know he needs weapons and money.

So, we propose the following...

I'll send it to you in our fort Elmina in Dahomey.

You will have the rank of lieutenant.

Your wages will be held here...

in a special bank account in Bahia.

In 5 months I will come ship with a cargo of ammunition.

With this you can pay the King.

We've also thought about Angola...

but the English Navy have it blockaded.

The trip around the Cape to the east coast...

it is impossible because the Arabs monopolize the slave trade...

from Zanzibar on down.

The situation looks very favorable this time...

why the King of Dahomey's war with the Egbas.

And that means that she needs us as much as we have.

When you have received information for the last time?

It's been a long time since we received any messages.

And we can't trust the reports that we get.

Will you accept our offer?

Yes.

Congratulations.

Take your appointment, and we wish you every success.

We have to prepare a ship for a long ocean journey.

Elmina, West Africa

Brazilian slave fortress...

in the province of evil, παρανοικού King of Dahomey.

Put me ashore and give me ten rifles to take with me.

None of my crew would dare to go.

I can't force them.

You will have to wait for her to maybe come for Africans to take.

There's no one there. What's the matter?

Take the telescope. The fort shows to the world.

Usually they send a priest...

praying for us to capsize in the wave.

Anything that floats belongs to the King.

I've seen them strip a half-drowned sailor.

We will wait to see what happens.

Thus far, Africa's quite a disappointment.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Where is the boat with the silk? And the coach and horses?

And the trumpets?

The silver rifles for hunting?

There will be no gifts.

Not even greyhounds?

Nor hounds.

There will be no gifts before it resumes keep coming, the King the slave trade.

And deliver me the fort.

Give me one of those rifles!

The payment will be with rifles.

The powder we have here takes a long time to talk...

- Your speaks immediately. - Keep it then.

Death to the white man! Death to the white man!

You can stay here if you want.

The west wing is in fair condition.

And... you can make do with one of my daughters.

Could... to live in the castle with you.

Are you running a whorehouse?

No. I mean, I don't do it for free.

Besides, I need an income but I only do this for white people.

You're the first person that comes in here... a long time ago.

Mother of jesus christ and the Saints, be praised!

I am taparica...

the drummer boy, the sole survivor of the garrison.

I'm free Yoruba...

and I served in the First Regiment of the Black Militia.

To show you where I live?

This is my home...

and these are my brothers.

What happened here?

It all started very strangely.

It was said that the King of Abomey was not right in the head.

He found slavery to be a bad idea.

Instead of sending us slaves...

one day, he sent us a horse with only one ear.

Then they attacked us.

The governor was killed instantly in an operation in the coast.

After they captured the fort and plundered everything.

The Black militia ran away, and all the whites were murdered.

The skulls of the prisoners...

today adorn the walls of the palace of Abomey.

They looted everything, stole the bells...

so they took the eyes of all the portraits in the main building.

Then... they broke the barrels of rum, one after the other...

...and drank it all!

They grabbed a soldier and raped him in the courtyard.

They put ants in my breast, pepper under my eyelids.

Burned my tongue because they claimed we were hiding a treasure.

They were prepared for the worse...

...when someone blew up the powder magazine with a torch.

They took seven bodies out of the ruins...

...and after that they left me alone.

We don't know who is buried where...

but I think the tomb is that of the Governor.

Why did you come...

all alone, without soldiers?

You're not afraid? Aren't you afraid of dying?

I haven't tried it yet.

What do we do now?

Wait.

Be careful with that. Keep it up!

I've never seen white works!

Don't get in front of me! I need to boost the front!

Holy Spirit...

Let me through...

You filthy pig! I don't want to see you again here!

Get out and stay out!

Only three hundred slaves?

We don't cover all the capacity, but it's better than nothing.

Our friends in Brazil will be surprised.

Of course the 20% of the sales into your bank account.

Do you have any firearms?

One hundred and forty of ammunition.

Silk?

A five-piece. It's not the best quality...

but here I don't understand the difference.

- Rum? - Ten barrels.

And smoke?

Unfortunately it got wet and we had to throw it away.

Next time, I'll have to get more weapons.

Lit again the war with the Egbas it?

The information that gets here is... incomplete...

We will rely on forecasts.

Can I make a personal observation?

Call...

We tried... if I may...

to think of all the possibilities before sending you here.

But we never expected... to see you...

Why do you think they send you slaves?

I don't know... I Guess they need me.

Can you guess their age by their teeth.

Actually they're lucky. We're saving their lives.

In the annual ceremonies, in accordance with the customs...

going to be sacrificed as messengers to the ancestors of the King.

I sent them to the other world.

But now we are sending them to a wonderful country...

where the cigars grow on trees and everyone dances.

Find out what's going on.

It is Bossa. The Bossa Γκελέλε. The big brother of the King.

All the men and children in the name Bossa are to be killed.

The King will not tolerate another in his kingdom...

with his own name, Bossa.

His name is Bossa Ahadee.

He knows that the customs allow him to kill his brother...

the territory of the kingdom.

So I go out in the open, to be drowned.

White man, when the King is looking for someone, he can't hide.

Even if you hide under the earth...

...the ground will speak.

The Leopard had a son by a woman.

The mighty claw of the Leopard...

left unquenchable mark on the cheeks of the child.

Now the holy son of the Leopard...

declares that he loves the white.

It is the white man in good health?

The new white man comes from the other side of the sea.

He has seen many things.

The King has prepared a royal road.

The King wishes to see the stranger.

The King dictated this message to his royal scribe.

"I'm Portuguese...

held by the horrible king in the last 16 years.

I don't know that I'm writing something. Attention!

If you come here, you're dead."

Tell his Majesty, I must always have one foot in the sea.

I can't come.

Get him.

Abomey Residence of the King

I wish I had your skin.

The blacks believe that the Devil is white.

The Leopard stood up.

The Leopard takes its place.

Dada, breathe for me! Dada, steal me!

Take me with you! My head belongs to you. My body belongs to you. Give me a call.

The King of the Desert, seated on his throne.

What does that mean?

This is the King of the Desert. There is no.

That is, there is only in the imagination of the King.

But the two Kings rule together.

The Leopard speaks!

For the annual ceremony to be slaughtered all the dogs...

last night at the Gate of Tears.

The dogs gather on the streets...

and try to talk like people.

But if they succeed, it will fall plague upon the people.

We must conquer the Egbas!

We shall break abeokuta!

My house needs a cover.

I'll cover my roof with the skulls of my enemies.

How are my brothers? Answer, white man, before I kill you!

How is the health of the King of Prussia?

What makes my brother, the Tsar of Russia?

How is Queen Victoria, with a heart like the great pumpkin...

full of palm wine for the thirsty man?

I can't hear a word of what you said about the noise you make!

Prepare to die, stranger. There is no time for the King.

The Devil is white. Death is white.

All the whites are half dead.

So they always do before they behead a white man.

They painted your face black...

why is it forbidden to kill a white man.

I'm not afraid.

In this place, the dead are more alive than the living.

No one may see the Leopard while he drinks.

Hey, white man. One day I will drink from your skull!

He was the King of the mahis.

The dead eat so... The dead drink so.

I swore, to the house of the vows to conquer the Egbas.

I'm not afraid of anyone. Only one thing I'm afraid.

That one day...

I won't be anyone left to conquer.

But tell me, white man... Why have the Portuguese...

brought 335 warships to the coast?

And why did you poison my greyhound?

Snow... snow...

Fast! Kill the guards!

I am bakoko, the confidant of the prince.

The prince Kankpe is waiting for you. Quickly, stranger, come with me!

Where is taparica! You must take taparica along!

Why did you free us?

The prince Kankpe decided to revolt against his uncle.

Is the rightful heir to the throne.

Yesterday the King Bossa Ahadee left for the north with the army.

Out there are a lot of hills.

You need to defeat the Bossa Ahadee.

But we need your help.

Our rebel warriors have failed you all.

Women are much more brave.

My father.

The traitor must die.

Open the graves of our ancestors!

I'll go down to the fortress on the coast...

and there we will create an army of amazons.

The prince would like to make a pact of blood brotherhood.

The blood brothers don't kill each other.

If the new king to assign the slave trade, then I am his man.

Has the slightest idea what we're talking about?

Agree. I don't have a choice.

He says yes to anything. You see, it's paranoid.

Okay! Over there! What a sad situation!

Listen to me! I said over there! All of you!

You got to get up fast to not get killed.

I have 400 pledges. Where do you want to go?

Not here. Take them to the coast.

They all want to fight! They want to kill all men.

Don't bother me now. I have to orga - νώσω this bunch of women.

- Raise the shields! - Be careful with the spear!

Now, fight on!

No, you're not doing it right! So to keep the spear!

And move constantly your feet!

So... you Take it now!

Attack, goddamn it!

Give me the cutlass! Come on, attack! Attack!

Keep your spear up! Defend yourself! Cover your body with the shield!

Lf you trip and fall, it's the end of you!

Move, move, move!

A...

Two...

Three...

Four...

Five! And tap!

Not bad! Nice, now get back in your original positions.

Faster! Go ahead!

And now... ready? Attack position...

No, no, no!... At ease!

The same again faster! Take your positions!

A...

Two...

Three...

Four...

Five! Kill the enemy!

Who told them to rest? Standing up, come on! Keep moving!

Get up!

We don't want to practice anymore. We want to fight!

I swear to get my head in the Bossa Ahadee!

You are not yet ready.

We need to continue the exercise. To obey my orders.

I don't want to hear any more from you.

I've made my decision! We'll attack!

We're leaving tomorrow! Fight, fight...

In Abomey...

They have taken the sacred python from the temple.

We have to go back. Nobody gets past it alive!

In my country I was a snake! Step aside! Attack!

- The dead kings σ'εκθρόνισαν. - Now I'm going to sleep.

Build the doors to the women's quarters.

No! Don't let him go! Stop him! Hold him!

Get back! Now I would strangle the women.

The new king takes his throne!

To ask him to get close to you?

He gave the name Adjinakou -, which means "Green Snake".

Appointed Viceroy of Νταχόμει.

The King Kankpe gives you for the official residence Fort Elmina.

You have to remove the glass windows from the main house.

The servants get sprayed with water...

because they thought that the rising sun set them on fire.

Make sure to improve the ventilation in the slave quarters.

- Are dying, too many of them. Yes, Adjinakou -.

You have to have them shipped faster.

The captain of the Flor de Bahia has the best room.

I gave him the east wing. And the signals are ready.

Tomorrow will be all at their posts.

The distance is 23.500 bamboo.

It will be a great surprise for the king.

They offer you a place in the Syndicate back in Bahia.

I don't need that crap!

And why haven't I received the ships I asked for?

I don't know, Don Francisco.

But I will bring it to the attention of the Governor when I get back.

This is outrageous!

This is the second shipment of slaves that you received without payment.

I'm not sure that I can trust your word!

Sometimes I get a bit tired.

Tonight, I'll take any of them.

What would you want?

She...

You, come on!

Yes, you!

If you get pregnant don't go in the ship.

Then they get their own cabin.

We already have a whole village full of them.

- What are these women? - Our future murderers.

Do the signals!

I want to write a letter for my partners in Brazil.

I spent an hour and a half until I get an answer.

Where to begin to describe this stupid existence?

Or how lonely it is to be without family or friends.

The only white man in this country...

perhaps on this whole continent.

In the meantime, I'm a father of sixty-two children...

but this gives me no pleasure.

Maybe I'll come back next year and get married.

I live in the lands of ice and snow...

anywhere as long as I'm away from here.

The heat here is relentless and inevitable.

It penetrates the human bodies as the fever...

but my heart grows colder and colder.

Adjinakou-comes the answer.

The King sends his brother...

the greeting of the Royal Leopard.

He is almost nineteen. Looks strong and healthy.

He must be 25, a good, hardy body.

He's about the same age. And it's a very strong boy.

Obviously, like the choir of the nuns.

Pretty good.

Do you know Pedro Vincente, the captain of the Flor de Bahia?

I know him.

How much is it worth to you an interesting story?

Depends.

Pedro Vicente took a large consignment of slaves from you.

He didn't pay.

Well, I'll tell what I saw with my own eyes.

The Flor de Bahia was overflowing from the load. Tricked you.

He went and gave all his weapons and goods to the British.

Made a double profit.

And guess what happened to the Flor de Bahia!

Drifting of the currents close to the Lagos... non-seaworthy.

Also, the crew mutinies, so he's trapped.

Take a boat and get a message to Captain Vincente.

"Come here. I'll re-equip. Nobody's fool for the 2nd time."

Go ahead and take everything.

What does that mean?

Our King Kankpe was never insane. He only pretended to be.

He thanks his brother, who was once the viceroy.

The blood brother of the king was a big tree...

...and that's what he wants to say to you.

Why does the king speak of me only in the past tense?

Things look bad, but as long as it is king Kankpe you're safe.

I would never kill a blood brother.

There are still some rifles in there.

Where is the money? Fast! Completely empty the space!

- Do you really want to help me? - I keep my word.

But that does me no good anymore... and neither do you!

Brazil complied with the rest of the...

and abolished the slave trade.

Whatever load is on the way will be seized in the open.

In the eyes of the law...

Fort Elmina and our lives have ceased to exist.

And by the way, something still.

I know that for at least a year...

your partners in Bahia to slander and steal from you.

The state bank confiscated all your money.

Also, the English have put a price on your head.

Finally, something happened!

This was my contract with the Syndicate.

In slavery...

the greatest misunderstanding in the history of mankind!

It wasn't a misunderstanding. It was a crime.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...

The destruction of us!

The slaves will sell their masters...

and you'll grow wings.

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