Black Orpheus
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
- Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
Cover based on a theatrical poster
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
- Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
Cover based on a theatrical poster
Cast
- Breno Mello
- Orfeu
- Marpessa Dawn
- Eurídice
- Lourdes de Oliveira
- Mira
- Léa Garcia
- Serafina
- Adhemar Feirrera da Silva
- Death
- Waldetar de Souza
- Chico
- Alexandre Constantino
- Hermes
- Jorge dos Santos
- Benedito
- Aurino Cassiano
- Zeca
- Maria Alice
- Little Girl
Credits
- Director
- Marcel Camus
- Producer
- Sacha Gordine
- Inspired by the play by
- Vinicius de Moraes
- Adaptation and dialogue
- Jacques Viot
- Adaptation and dialogue
- Marcel Camus
- Music
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Music
- Luis Bonfá
- Director of photography
- Jean Bourgoin
- Editing
- Andrée Feix
- Cameramen
- Louis Stein
- Cameramen
- René Persin
- Sound engineer
- Amaury Leenhardt
- Assistant director
- Robert Mazoyer
- Costume design
- Isabel Pons
- Production manager
- Jacques Gibault
- Production assistance
- Silvio Autuori
- Production assistance
- Roger Blache
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