Black Orpheus

  • Brazil Orfeu Negro (more)
Trailer
Brazil / France / Italy, 1959, 100 min

Directed by:

Marcel Camus

Screenplay:

Jacques Viot, Vinicius de Moraes (theater play)

Cinematography:

Jean Bourgoin
(more professions)

Plots(1)

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim. (Criterion)

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