
April 21, 1912 · 114 years old
Marcel Camus (21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982) was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Camus was born in Chappes, in the Ardennes département of France.…

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

A gentle restaurant owner inadvertently got involved in World War II after delivering a confidential document to an English pilot.