Black Orpheus Poster
Marcel CamusDirector
Marcel CamusAdaptation
Jacques ViotAdaptation
Marcel CamusDialogue
Jacques ViotDialogue
Jacques ViotScreenplay
Vinicius de MoraesTheatre Play
Jean BourgoinDirector of Photography
Antônio Carlos JobimOriginal Music Composer
Luiz BonfáOriginal Music Composer
Sacha GordineProducer

Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro

Marcel Camus · 1959 · 100 minutes · France, Italy, Brazil
Black Orpheus Poster

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.

Marcel CamusDirector
Marcel CamusAdaptation
Jacques ViotAdaptation
Marcel CamusDialogue
Jacques ViotDialogue
Jacques ViotScreenplay
Vinicius de MoraesTheatre Play
Jean BourgoinDirector of Photography
Antônio Carlos JobimOriginal Music Composer
Luiz BonfáOriginal Music Composer
Sacha GordineProducer
Awards
1 win & 0 nominations

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