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Destitute old man marries nineteen-year-old girl. He can’t give her any children and moves to the interior to make money. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old daughter

Against all advice, a destitute 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. The film was shot on location in Brazil; all actors are Brazilian.

Title: João en het mes
Year: 1972
Duration : 1 hour, 35 minutes
Category: Feature film
Edition: NFF 1983

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