Breno Mello

Breno Mello

1931-09-07
76 (2008-07-11)
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Breno Higino de Mello (Porto Alegre, September 7, 1931 – Porto Alegre, July 11, 2008) was a Brazilian actor and football player.

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Breno Higino de Mello (Porto Alegre, September 7, 1931 – Porto Alegre, July 11, 2008) was a Brazilian actor and football player.

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Black Orpheus 1959 (7)

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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Prisoner of Rio 1988 (6)

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
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Looking for Black Orpheus 2005

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.