BLACK ORPHEUS: THE CRITERION COLLECTION [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
• Plot: Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.;
• Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Ademar Da Silva, Waldemar De Souza, Alexandro Constantino, Jorge Dos Santos, Aurino Cassiano, Fausto Guerzoni, Marcel Camus, Jacques Viot, Vinicius de Moraes, Sacha Gordine, Jean Bourgoin, Andrée Feix, Luis Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Amaury Leenhardt, Raymond Pierre Lemoigne
• Director: Marcel Camus
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Dispatfilm, Gemma, Tupan Filmes, Euro-London Films, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie