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Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

STATUS: Released

Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

  • 1959
  • France
  • Fiction
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • 107 mins
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Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

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Director
Marcel Camus
Writer
Jacques Viot, Vinicius de Moraes, Marcel Camus
Producer
Sacha Gordine

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