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Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro
Title
Black Orpheus [videorecording] = Orfeu Negro / a Sacha Gordine production ; directed by Marcel Camus ; Lopert Films, inc., Janus Films, Voyager Press.
ISBN
0931393310
Published
Los Angeles, Calif. : Criterion ; New York : New Video [distributor], c1987.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col., 1800 rpm ; 12 in.
Notes
In Portuguese, English subtitles.
Title from data sheet.
"A Janus Film presentation."
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
"A Franco-Italian coproduction."
Based on: Orfeu da Conceição / Vinínius de Moraes.
Laserdisc, CAV.
Winner of Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 1959 ; Academy Award, Best Foreign Film, 1959.
Voyager : 2002 L.
Screenplay, Jacques Viot ; photography, Jean Bourgoin ; cameramen, Louis Stein, Rene Persin ; music score, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa ; editor, Andrée Feix ; adaptation and dialogue, Jacques Viot, Marcel Camus; photography, Jean Bourgoin.
Summary
The classical legend of Orpheus and Eurydice unfolds in an updated version against the riotously colorful background of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In the black section of the city, Orpheus is a street-car conductor and Eurydice a pretty country girl fleeing from a mysterious man sworn to kill her, a man who in the story represents Fate or Death.
Variant and related titles
Orfeu negro.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Portuguese
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Credits
Screenplay, Jacques Viot ; photography, Jean Bourgoin ; cameramen, Louis Stein, Rene Persin ; music score, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa ; editor, Andrée Feix ; adaptation and dialogue, Jacques Viot, Marcel Camus; photography, Jean Bourgoin.
Cast
Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Lea Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Alexandre Constantino.
Subjects
Also listed under
Criterion (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)
New Video Group.
Lopert Films Inc.
Janus Films.
Voyager Press.
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