Word: vinicius
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...swept across the French movie industry. It is an amazing creation. The picture was made by Marcel Camus,* a 47-year-old assistant to some of France's top directors. In 1957 he found an adaptation of the Orpheus legend by a Brazilian poet and playwright named Vinicius de Moraes (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956), and for the hell of it he used the wildly poetic mountains around Rio de Janeiro, where thousands of Negroes live in conditions of infernal poverty among scenes of paradisal beauty...