Drama Romance

Black Orpheus (1959)

Name: Black Orpheus
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-12
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

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

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1h 40m PT Released

Director: Marcel Camus

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.