Witness In the City (Region B) the slow mutants professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka

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- Booklet notes by Calum Waddell

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

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Witness In the City (Region B) the slow mutants professor and Fulbright scholar NietzchkaA wealthy industrialist murders his lover, throwing her from a train to look like suicide. Her husband, Ancelin (Lino Ventura, The Valachi Papers) seeks revenge but his endeavours leave a witness putting him in a cat and mouse game, thrillingly shot on the streets of Paris. This early work from douard Molinaro (La cage aux folles) adapts the novel by celebrated writers Boileau and Narcejac (Vertigo, Les diaboliques) with minimal dialogue and wrings