Orfeu Negro is a free-italiano-Brazilian Musical film of Marcel Camus left in 1959.

This film revisits the myth of Orphée and Eurydice while transposing it of Thrace to Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval.

It is adapted of a part of Vinicius de Moraes. The songs of film, become of the standards of Worked nova and of Jazz were composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá.

Data sheet

• Realizer: Marcel Camus

• Scenario: Jacques Viot and Marcel Camus according to the part Orfeu da Conceição of Vinicius de Moraes
• Dialogs: Jacques Viot and Marcel Camus
• Director of the photography: Jean Bourgoin
• Sound engineer: Amaury Leenhardt
• Music: Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá
• Assistant-realizer: Lou Bonin and Robert Mazoyer
• Assembly: Andree Feix
• Production: Dispat Films (Paris) Gemmated Cinematografica (Rome) Turpan Filmes (São Paulo)
• Producteur: Pierre de Clercq
• Directing of production: Jacques Gibault
• Distributer of origin: Lux Films (Paris)
• Coming out date: June 12th 1959

Distribution

• Breno Mello (Orfeo)

• Marpessa Dawn (Eurydice)
• Marcel Camus (Ernesto)
• Fausto Guerzoni (Fausto)
• Heavy of Oliveira (Reflected)
• Lea Garcia (Serafina)
• Ademar Da Silva (Death)
• Alexandro Constantino (Hermes)
• Waldemar De Souza (Chico)
• Jorge Dos Santos (Benedito)
• Aurino Cassiano (Zeca)
• Maria Alice
• Anna Amelia
• Elizeth Cardoso
• Arlete Costa
• Maria de Lourdes
• Modesto De Souza
• Agostinho back Santos
• Afonso Marinho
• Esther Mellinger
• Eunice Mendes
• Dinorah Miranda
• Zeni Pereira
• Teresa Santos

See too

• Card IMDb