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Auction History Result 1g473 BLACK ORPHEUS French 1p '59 Marcel Camus' Orfeu Negro, best art by Georges Allard! Date Sold 9/17/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 1/2" x 61 1/4" [116 x 156 cm]) (Learn More) Orfeu Negro (released in the U.S. as "Black Orpheus"), the classic 1959 Marcel Camus Brazilian/French/Italian doomed romance fantasy melodrama ("Amid the splendor of Carnival in Rio... A modern retelling of the ancient legend of love and passion and violence!"; "Passionate! Volatile! Haunting!"; winner of the Best Foreign Language Academy Award; a re-telling of the Greek myth, updated to the present day and set at the Brazilian Carnival, and featuring black actors in the lead roles) starring Breno Mello (in the title role as Orfeu), Marpessa Dawn (as Eurydice), Marcel Camus, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira, and Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (as Death) If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this partially French movie! Note that this movie proved so popular on its first release in 1959 that it was given a quick re-release just two years later in 1961. New posters were printed from the same plates, and the only difference between the two posters is that the "9/59" and "59/3" were changed to "8/61" and "61/3" for that later printing. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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