Name: Black Orpheus
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 1959
Duration: 100
Rating: 7
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

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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Marcel Camus
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Vinicius de Moraes
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Marcel Camus
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Jacques Viot
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Orfeo

Breno Mello
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Eurydice

Marpessa Dawn
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Mira

Lourdes de Oliveira
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Serafina

Léa Garcia
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Death

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
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Chico

Waldetar De Souza
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Hermes

Alexandre Constantino
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Benedito

Jorge Dos Santos
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Zeca

Aurino Cassiano
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Little Girl

Maria Alice
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Ernesto

Marcel Camus
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Fausto

Fausto Guerzoni
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Thereza Santos
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Zeni Pereira
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Elizeth Cardoso

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