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Marcel Camus directed Orfeu Negro.

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·100 min

Orfeu Negro

Name: Orfeu Negro
Director: Marcel Camus
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.961
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

Directed by Marcel Camus

DramaRomance

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.