Cast
- Breno Mello as Orfeu
- Marpessa Dawn as Eurydice
- Marcel Camus as Ernesto
- Fausto Guerzoni as Fausto
- Lourdes de Oliveira as Mira
- Léa Garcia as Serafina
- Adhemar da Silva as Death
- Alexandro Constantino as Hermes
- Waldemar De Souza as Chico
- Jorge Dos Santos as Benedito
- Aurino Cassiano as Zeca
- Cast notes
- Marpessa Dawn was not from Brazil, but rather Pittsburgh.
- Breno Mello was a soccer player with no acting experience at the time he was cast as Orfeu. Mello was walking on the street in Rio de Janeiro, when director Marcel Camus stopped him and asked if he would like to be in a film.
- Da Silva, the actor who played Death, was a triple jumper who won two Olympic gold medals, in 1952 and 1956.
- A young boy who dances across the screen playing a pandeiro grew up to win a national pandeiro-playing contest and play his instrument around the world. Currently, Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro teaches in Los Angeles and at California Brazil Camp.
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