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| Title Statement | Black Orpheus [DVD] / Dispatfilm, Gemma Cinematografica, Tupan Filmes ; produced by Sacha Gordine ; directed by Marcel Camus ; screenplay by Jacques Voit. |
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| Series | Criterion collection ;48 |
| Additional Contributors | Camus, Marcel,1912-1982 |
| Mello, Breno | |
| Dawn, Marpessa | |
| Oliveira, Lourdes de | |
| Moraes, Vinícius de | |
| Publication | [New York]: Criterion Collection, c2010. |
| Edition | Two-DVD special ed. |
| Extent of Item | 2 videodiscs (107 min.) |
| ISBN | 160465287X (v.r.) 9781604652871 (v.r.) |
| Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 715515059213 |
| Other Number | 2125211 |
| General Notes | DVDs. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Based on the play Orfeu do conçeicao by Vinicius de Moraes. "Janus Films"--Container. Standard version. Special features include: archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn, new video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historial Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro, Looking for Black Orpheus, a French documentary about Black Orpheus's cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today, theatrical trailer. Illustrated booklet with essay by film critic Michael Atkinson inserted in container. |
| Performance Credits | Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliviera, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Feirrera da Silva. |
| Languages | Portuguese language track with English subtitles. |
| System Details | DVDs, Dolby mono. |
| Terms of Use | Public performance rights. |
| Awards | Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, 1959 |
| Summary | A Black streetcar conductor and talented singer/dancer falls in love with a country girl during Rio's carnival, and follows her into the world of death in pursuit of his love. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Orpheus (Greek mythology)--Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
| Death--Fiction | |
| Carnival--Fiction--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro | |
| Motion pictures, Brazilian | |
| Foreign films | |
| By Location | Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Fiction |
| By Genre | Feature films |
