Originally produced as motion picture in 1959.
Based on the play: Orfeu da concȩicão / Vinicius de Moraes.
Special features: archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn; new video interviews with Brazilian film scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro; Looking for Black Orpheus, a French documentary about the making of Black Orpheus and its cultural and musical roots, as well as its resonance in Brazil today; theatrical trailer.
Accompanying booklet contains an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson.
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Photography, Jean Bourgoin ; editor, Andrée Feix ; music, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa.
Breno Melo, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva.
DVD, Region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
Dialogue in Portuguese or English; optional English subtitles.
Academy Award, Best Foreign Film ; Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival.
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