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Uniform Title Orfeu negro (Motion picture)
Title Orfeu negro [videorecording] = Black Orpheus / Lopert Films, Inc. ; co-production franco-italienne, Dispatfilm, Gemma Cinematografica avec la participation de Tupan Filmes LTDA ; un film de Marcel Camus.

Imprint [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.4372 B561 1999    ---  Available
Edition Extended international version.
Description 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series The Criterion collection ; 48
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 48.
System Details DVD ; Dolby digital mono ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Language In Portuguese with optional English subtitles or dubbed English.
Cast Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Lea Garcia.
Credits Producer, Sacha Gordine ; director, Marcel Camus ; script, Jacques Viot ; photography, Jean Bourgoin ; music, Luis Bonfa, Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Special features: Uncut version of film featuring previously unseen footage, remastered sound, new English subtitle translation, English-dubbed soundtrack, French theatrical trailer.
Inspired from the play "Orfeu da Conceic˜ao" by Vinicius de Moraes.
"A Janus Films release"--Container.
Summary Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
Subject Orpheus (Greek mythological character) -- Drama.
Carnival -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Drama.
Bossa nova (Music) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films -- Brazil.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Portuguese.
Added Author Camus, Marcel, 1912-1982.
Gordine, Sacha.
Viot, Jacques, 1921-2012.
Bonfa, Luiz.
Jobim, Antonio Carlos.
Mello, Breno.
Dawn, Marpessa.
Oliveira, Lourdes de.
Garcia, Lea, 1933-
Moraes, Vinicius de. Orfeu da Conceic˜ao.
Lopert Films.
Dispatfilm (Firm)
Gemma cinematografica (Firm)
Tupan Filmes.
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Black Orpheus
Note Title on disc and container: Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus
ISBN 0780022211
9780780022218
Standard No. 037429138328
Music No. BLA070 Criterion Collection
Standard No. YDXCP 2511999
NZ1 8012186

 
    
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