João Ratão

7.1

Genre: Romance Comedy
Run time: 103 min
Premiere: 1940. April 29.

Director: Jorge Brum do Canto
Writer: João Bastos
Starring: Óscar de Lemos Maria Domingas António Silva Manuel Santos Carvalho

João Ratão is one of many young Portuguese soldiers fighting in Flandres, France, during World War I. Back home, he now needs to fight for the love Vitória, to whom he sent love letters from France... written by a fellow soldier. João Ratão is illiterate.