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About
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.
Theatrical
Nov 29, 1950
Theaters
1
Director
Producer
Music
Studio
Films du Palais Royal, Andre Paulve Film
Original Title
Orphée
Original Language
French
The Orphic Trilogy
Decadent, subversive, and bristling with artistic invention, the myth-born cinema of Jean Cocteau disturbs as much as it charms. Cocteau was the most versatile of artists in prewar Paris. Poet, noveli...
Cast
Full credits →J
Jean Marais
Orphée
F
François Périer
Heurtebise
M
María Casares
Death
M
Marie Déa
Eurydice
H
Henri Crémieux
Editor
J
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
R
Roger Blin
The Poet
E
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
A
André Carnège
Judge
R
René Worms
Judge
R
Raymond Faure
Journalist
P
Pierre Bertin
Commissioner
J
Jacques Varennes
Judge
P
Paul Amiot
Judge (uncredited)
C
Claude Borelli
Une bacchante (uncredited)
J
Jean Cocteau
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
R
Renée Cosima
Une bacchante (uncredited)
J
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
R
René Lacourt
Postman (uncredited)
J
Julien Maffre
Police Officer (uncredited)
