Black Orpheus

Name: Black Orpheus
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 1959
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva

Black Orpheus (1959) — drama, romance film. Directed by Marcel Camus. Starring Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia. This page maps 7 characters and 6 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 7/10 from 243 votes.

Interactive Features for Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:

Character Relationship Map — Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 7 characters interconnect through 6 relationship links.
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Story Analysis

A tragic romance adapting the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to Rio's Carnival.

Drama, Romance · 7/10 · 100 min · 1959

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.