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