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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Jean Marais
Orphée
François Périer
Heurtebise
María Casares
Death
Marie Déa
Eurydice
Henri Crémieux
Editor
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
Roger Blin
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
André Carnège
Judge
René Worms
Judge
Director
Jean Cocteau
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Production
Films du Palais Royal, Andre Paulve Film
CinemaSerf
February 5, 2024
Accomplished poet "Orphée" (Jean Marais) is sitting in a café with a friend one afternoon when a fracas breaks out with some local students that necessitates the intervention of the police and causes a tragedy to occur. A woman in a Rolls Royce turns up and asks her aides to put an injured man into her car. Shen then rather bossily requires the writer to accompany her as a witness. He assumes they...
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