João and the Knife

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TitleA Faca e o Rio
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Release dateApr 1, 1972
GenreDrama, Crime
DirectorGeorge Sluizer
Production countryNetherlands, Brazil
Production companiesSluizer Films, Roberto Bakker Produções Cinematográficas
Run time96 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.

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