Black Orpheus
Orfeu Negro
“ The film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world... ”
CINEMA1959-06-12
DIGITAL2020-05-10
RegionBR / FR
Runtime100 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“The Orpheus myth moves to Rio de Janeiro, where carnival, music, love, and death give the ancient tragedy an entirely new social and cultural life.”
Storyline
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 y...
DIRECTOR / Director
Marcel Camus
KEYWORDS
guitarrio de janeirosambatrolleydancing in the streetbased on mythslegends or folkloredetachedcarnavaldemeaningorpheus
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The Orpheus myth moves to Rio de Janeiro, where carnival, music, love, and death give the ancient tragedy an entirely new social and cultural life.
