Other Titles • Black Orpheus (1959) • Orfeu Negro • Orfeu do Carnaval (1959)
Trivia from Black Orpheus (1959)
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Filmed in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope.
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Marpessa Dawn, the actress who plays Eurydice, was an American dancer who performed in the company of famed choreographer Katherine Dunham.
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The video is also available in a dubbed version; the actors who redid the dialogue have a variety of Caribbean accents.
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Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro, the film features actual footage of the city's 1959 carnival festivities.
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Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the play on which the film is based, and Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote the music, are three of Brazil's most highly regarded musicians and composers. They helped develop and popularize bossa nova, the Brazilian musical style that combined traditional samba with American jazz.
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Jobim is best known to Americans as the composer of "The Girl from Ipanema."
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The print used for the Home Vision Cinema VHS version is from the Janus collection.
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