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Orpheus

Original title: Orphée

1950 · NR · 1h 35m

Directed by Jean Cocteau

7.7

TMDB audience score
311 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

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Cast

  • Jean Marais
    Orphée

  • François Périer
    Heurtebise

  • María Casares
    Death

  • Marie Déa
    Eurydice

  • Henri Crémieux
    Editor

  • Juliette Gréco
    Aglaonice

  • Roger Blin
    The Poet

  • Édouard Dermithe
    Jacques Cégeste

  • André Carnège
    Judge

  • René Worms
    Judge

  • Raymond Faure
    Journalist

  • Pierre Bertin
    Commissioner

  • Jacques Varennes
    Judge

  • Paul Amiot
    Judge (uncredited)

  • Philippe Bordier
    Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

  • Claude Borelli
    Une bacchante (uncredited)

  • Jean-Louis Brau
    Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

  • Jean Cocteau
    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)