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Black Orpheus

Original title: Orfeu Negro

The film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world...

1959 · PG · 1h 40m

Directed by Marcel Camus

7.0

TMDB audience score
248 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    Orfeo

  • Marpessa Dawn
    Eurydice

  • Lourdes de Oliveira
    Mira

  • Léa Garcia
    Serafina

  • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
    Death

  • Waldetar De Souza
    Chico

  • Alexandre Constantino
    Hermes

  • Jorge Dos Santos
    Benedito

  • Aurino Cassiano
    Zeca

  • Maria Alice
    Little Girl

  • Marcel Camus
    Ernesto

  • Fausto Guerzoni
    Fausto

  • Thereza Santos

  • Zeni Pereira

  • Elizeth Cardoso

  • Cartola

  • Dona Zica