BLACK ORPHEUS
| 1960 (Re-RELEASED in 2021) – 105′ – DRAMA, MUSIC & DANCE, ROMANCE, CLASSIC.
Written by: Marcel Camus, Jacques Viot.
Based on the Play by: Vinicius de Moraes.
Directed by: Marcel Camus.
Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Ademar Da Silva, Marcel Camus, Fausto. Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliviera, Lea Garcia, Alexandro Constantino, Waldemar De Souza.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1959 (Winner Palme D’Or). Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film.
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
1960 Academy Award Winner and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.