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Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy.

The film is particularly noted for its soundtrack by two Brazilian composers: Antônio Carlos Jobim, whose song "A felicidade" opens the film; and Luiz Bonfá, whose "Manhã de Carnaval" and "Samba of Orpheus" have become bossa nova classics. The songs sung by the character Orfeu were dubbed by singer Agostinho dos Santos.

Lengthy passages of the film were shot in the Morro da Babilônia, a favela (slum) in the Leme neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.

Plot

A marble Greek bas relief explodes to reveal black men dancing the samba to drums in a favela. Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) arrives in Rio de Janeiro, and takes a trolley driven by Orfeu (Breno Mello). New to the city, she rides to the end of the line, where Orfeu introduces her to the station guard, Hermes (Alexandro Constantino), who gives her directions to the home of her cousin Serafina (Léa Garcia).

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Black Orpheus (disambiguation)

Black Orpheus may refer to:

Black Orpheus, a 1959 film directed by Marcel Camus

Black Orpheus (album), a 2003 album by Keziah Jones. 2004 version: Black Orpheus Limited Edition

Black Orpheus (magazine) founded by Ulli Beier in 1957

"Manhã de Carnaval" (sometimes called "Black Orpheus"), a jazz standard by Luiz Bonfá from the film's soundtrack

"Orphée Noir", a 1948 essay by Jean-Paul Sartre, published as a preface to Anthologie de la nouvelle poesie nègre et malgash de langue francaise, edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor

Black Orpheus (album)

Black Orpheus is an album by Nigerian musician Keziah Jones.

Track listing

"AfrosurrealismForTheLadies"

"Kpafuca"

"Femiliarise"

"Wet Questions"

"Neptune"

"72 Kilos"

"All Praises"

"Beautiful Emilie"

"Sadness Is"

"Autumn Moon"

"The Black Orpheus"

"Orin O' Lomi"

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Black Orpheus released: 1997

Black Orpheus

Released 1997

Prologue
Verbal Gladiators
War Exercise
Infinity Files
Inner Source
Call It Drama
Orpheus
Secret Agent
Victim of a Tale
Louise
Infinity Files
Pose a Threat
Goin’ Down
M.I.C.
Epilogue

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Black Orpheus

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Black Orpheus

by Keziah Jones

Black Orpheus

by: Cassandra Wilson

A day in the life of a fool
A sad and a long lonely day
I walk the avenue and hope I'll run into
The welcome sight of you coming my way
I stop just across from your door
But you're never home any more
So back to my room
And there in the gloom I cry
Tears of goodbye
So back to my room
And there in the gloom I cry

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