The Man Who Challenged the Devil

A man named Zé Araújo (Marcos Palmeira) is forced into a marriage he never chose, then put to work under his father-in-law, who humiliates him every day. Somewhere in that routine he turns into Ojuara, a mythical figure known across the backlands for his devotion to debauchery. Moacyr Góes adapts Nei Leandro de Castro's novel Pelejas de Ojuara and plays the folk-tale comedy straight-faced.