João and the Knife
Movie| Title | A Faca e o Rio |
| User score | 0 |
| Release date | Apr 1, 1972 |
| Genre | Drama, Crime |
| Director | George Sluizer |
| Production country | Netherlands, Brazil |
| Production companies | Sluizer Films, Roberto Bakker Produções Cinematográficas |
| Run time | 96 min. |
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.
