Essential Art House - 50 Years of Janus Films

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1.	El Espiritu De La Colmena	1973
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7.	Rashômon	1951
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14.	Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot	1953
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16.	The 39 Steps	1935
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18.	Umberto D.	1952
19.	Virgin Spring	1960
20.	Viridiana	1961
21.	Wages Of Fear	1953
22.	White Sheik	1952
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24.	Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist	1979
25.	Love Goddesses	1965
26.	Great Chase	1962
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28.	Ashes And Diamonds	1958
29.	L'avventura	1960
30.	Ballad Of A Soldier	1959
31.	La Belle Et La Bête	1946
32.	Orfeu Negro	1959
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36.	I Pugni In Tasca	1965
37.	Floating Weeds	1959
38.	Forbidden Games	1952
39.	Alexander Nevsky	1938
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41.	Ikiru	1952
42.	The Importance Of Being Earnest	1952
43.	Ivan The Terrible: Part 2	1958
44.	Le Jour Se Lève	1939
45.	Jules Et Jim	1962
46.	Kind Hearts And Coronets	1949
47.	Knife In The Water	1962
48.	The Lady Vanishes	1938
49.	Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp	1943
50.	Loves Of A Blonde	1965
51.	M	1931
52.	The 400 Blows	1959

Orfeu Negro

Criterion/Voyager (Jun 12, 1959)

Brazil | Portuguese | Color | 01:40

7.4

12,340

1 disc

Region 1

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.

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	Breno Mello	Orfeu
	Marpessa Dawn	Eurydice
	Lourdes de Oliveira	Mira
	Lea Garcia	Serafina
	Ademar Da Silva	Death
	Waldemar De Souza	Chico
	Alexandro Constantino	Hermes
	Jorge Dos Santos	Benedito
	Aurino Cassiano	Zeca
	Maria Alice
	Ana Amélia
	Elizeth Cardoso
	Arlete Costa
	Maria de Lourdes
	Modesto De Souza
	Agostinho dos Santos
	Fausto Guerzoni	Fausto
	Tião Macalé	Record player seller
	Afonso Marinho
	Esther Mellinger
	Eunice Mendes
	Dinorah Miranda
	Zeni Pereira
	Teresa Santos
	Marcel Camus	Man on ferry

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Director	Marcel Camus
Writer	Jacques Viot, Vinicius de Moraes, Marcel Camus
Producer	Sacha Gordine
Musician	Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim
Photography	Jean Bourgoin