Black Orpheus
Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
1959, BR, FR, IT
1h 40m
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Léa Garcia
Marpessa Dawn
Breno Mello
Lourdes de Oliveira
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
Waldetar De Souza
Alexandre Constantino
Jorge Dos Santos
Aurino Cassiano
Maria Alice
Marcel Camus
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The film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world...
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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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