Black Orpheus (1959)
Original title: Orfeu Negro
Black Orpheus is a 1959 Portuguese-language drama movie directed by Marcel Camus, with a running time of 1h 40m. It stars Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn and Lourdes de Oliveira.
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.
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Cast
- Breno Mello as Orfeo
- Marpessa Dawn as Eurydice
- Lourdes de Oliveira as Mira
- Léa Garcia as Serafina
- Adhemar Ferreira da Silva as Death
- Waldetar De Souza as Chico
- Alexandre Constantino as Hermes
- Jorge Dos Santos as Benedito
- Aurino Cassiano as Zeca
- Maria Alice as Little Girl
- Marcel Camus as Ernesto
- Fausto Guerzoni as Fausto
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