French director Marcel Camus based his film on the Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, who in turn used the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus as inspiration. Dropped into the Rio de Janeiro slums during the annual Carnaval festival, Orpheus (Brazilian soccer star Breno Mello) drives a trolley and is engaged to marry Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira), for whom the wedding cannot come soon enough. But Orpheus is a lover-of-women who can’t be tied down - until he meets Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn). Sparks fly immediately, but Eurydice is having troubles of her own, menaced by a mysterious man in a skeleton costume as well as the jealous Mira. With a justly famous bossa nova score by Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In Portuguese with English subtitles.