(A Faca e o Rio)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Netherlands,

Brazil

Genres:

Drama,

Crime

Runtime:

96 minutes

Year:

1972

Directors:

George Sluizer

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Production companies:

Sluizer Films,

Roberto Bakker Produções Cinematográficas

Actors:

João

Maria

Judge

Zeferino

Deodato

Crews:

Music

Sound

Producer

Director

Writer