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