1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 107 minutes) : .flv file, sound
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
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Event
Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1959
SUBJECT
Eurydice (Greek mythological character) fast (OCoLC)fst00916854
Orpheus (Greek mythological character) fast (OCoLC)fst01048449