Narradores de Javé

Narradores de Javé
Directed by	Eliane Caffé
Starring	José Dumont Nelson Xavier
Cinematography	Hugo Kovensky
Edited by	Daniel Rezende
Music by	DJ Dolores
Release date	2003 (2003)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Brazil France
Language	Portuguese

Narradores de Javé (The Storytellers) is a 2003 Brazilian film by Eliane Caffé.

Plot

A small and poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a planned dam, and believe that the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As the inhabitants are illiterate, they ask Antônio Biá for help, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out libellous letters as a way to keep his job in the town's little-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the town began, and finds each inhabitant has their own version.

Cast

• José Dumont .... Antonio Biá
• Matheus Nachtergaele .... Souza
• Nélson Dantas .... Vicentino
• Rui Resende .... Vado
• Gero Camilo .... Firmino
• Luci Pereira .... Deodora / Mariardina
• Nelson Xavier .... Zaqueu
• Altair Lima .... Galdério
• Henrique Lisboa .... Cirilo
• Maurício Tizumba.... Samuel

Inspiration

The figure of the protagonist Antônio Biá, portrayed by José Dumont, was freely inspired by a real person: the prospector, volunteer postman, and memoirist Pedro Cordeiro Braga (1917–2000), a resident of the Vau settlement, a rural district of the municipality of Diamantina, in the Jequitinhonha Valley (Minas Gerais).

External links

• Narradores de Javé at IMDb