Black Orpheus

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.

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  Breno Mello

  Orfeo
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  Marpessa Dawn

  Eurydice
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  Lourdes de Oliveira

  Mira
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  Léa Garcia

  Serafina
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  Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

  Death
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  Alexandre Constantino

  Hermes
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  Marcel Camus

  Ernesto
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  Fausto Guerzoni

  Fausto
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  Zeni Pereira
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  Elizeth Cardoso