João and the Knife

Movies
1972-04-01
PT
Released
2h 36m
NL
Drama - Crime

Production

Sluizer Films, Roberto Bakker Produções Cinematográficas

Storyline

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.