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Black Orpheus
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures.
- Drama.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1959
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Winner of both the **Academy Award** for best foreign-language film and the **Cannes Film Festival's** Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning
- Participant:
- Breno Mello, Lourdes de Oliveira, Marpessa Dawn
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1959
- Publisher Number:
- 1127172 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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