Black Orpheus

Name: Black Orpheus
Director: Marcel Camus
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-12
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

Directed by Marcel Camus

Drama

Romance

19591h 40m7.0

Overview

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.