Winner of both the academy award for best foreign language film and the cannes film festival's palme d'or, marcel camus' black orpheus orfeu negro brings the ancient greek myth of orpheus and eurydice to the twentieth century madness of carnival in rio de janeiro'. '.strtoupper('w')ith its eye popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, black orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi fis across america spinning.special edition featuresnew, restored high definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackoptional english dubbed soundtrackarchival interviews with director marcel camus and actress marpessa dawnnew video interviews with brazilian cinema scholar robert stam, jazz historian gary giddins, and brazilian author ruy castrolooking for black orpheus, a french documentary about black orpheus's cultural and musical roots and its resonance in brazil todaytheatrical trailerplus a booklet featuring an essay by film critic michael atkinsonclick images to enlarge