Black Orpheus
12 June 1959| 100 min
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.
Genres
DramaRomance
Cast
Breno Mello
Marpessa Dawn
Lourdes de Oliveira
Léa Garcia
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
Waldetar De Souza
Alexandre Constantino
Jorge Dos Santos
Aurino Cassiano
Maria Alice
Marcel Camus
Fausto Guerzoni
Thereza Santos
Zeni Pereira
Elizeth Cardoso
Cartola
Dona Zica
