Directed by Marcel Camus
With Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, and Adhemer Feirrera da Silva as Death

Recreating the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice within the twentieth-century favelas of Brazil during the Rio de Janeiro carnival, this winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or is a vibrant tour de force. 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 during the late 1960’s.