João en het mes 1972

Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old daughter. He buys himself a knife. Suspense movie with a combination of ethnography, adventure and dramatic action, based on a poem by the Brazilian writer Odylo Costa Filho.

Cast:

Jofre Soares
João 

Ana Maria Miranda
Maria 

João Augusto Azevedo
Judge 

Douglas Santos
Zeferino 

João Batista
Deodato 

Áurea Campos
Dona Ana 

• João and the Knife
• João e a Faca
• João und das Messer
• John, the Knife and the River