Brazzil

By now it should be apparent the lone, dissenting voice crying out in the Tijuca-forest wilderness belonged to that of Vinicius de Moraes, the country's best-known, modern-day bard; and the work that had wreaked such havoc with his fiery temper, if not his high blood pressure, was that of French director Marcel Camus' Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus, his 1959 screen adaptation of Vinicius' musical play in verse, Orfeu da Conceição ("Orpheus of the Conception"), from 1956.

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