BLACK ORPHEUS
by Marcel Camus
synopsis
In the heady atmosphere of Rio's carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a country girl, has run away from home to avoid a man who arrived at her her looking for her. She is convinced that he was going to kill her. She arrives in Rio to stay with her cousin Serafina. Orfeo works as a tram conductor and is engaged to Mira - as far as Mira is concerned anyways. As Eurydice and Orpheus get to know one another they fall deeply in love. Mira is mad with jealousy and when Eurydice disappears, Orfeo sets out to find her.
international title: | Black Orpheus |
original title: | Orfeu Negro |
country: | France, Italy, Brazil |
year: | 1959 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Marcel Camus |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | FR 12/05/1959, NL 24/07/1959, PT 21/09/1959, IT 30/09/1959, DE 06/10/1959, ES 26/10/1959, SE 18/12/1959, FI 14/10/1960, DK 27/10/1960, UK 1961, HU 03/05/1962, BE 22/07/1966 |
screenplay: | Marcel Camus, Jacques Viot |
cast: | Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira |
cinematography by: | Jean Bourgoin |
film editing: | Andrée Feix |
art director: | Pierre Guffroy |
producer: | Sacha Gordine |