Orpheus
29/09/1950
2h

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.
Cast


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
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)


Renée Cosima
Une bacchante (uncredited)


Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)


René Lacourt
Postman (uncredited)


Julien Maffre
Police Officer (uncredited)
Claude Mauriac
(uncredited)


Jean-Pierre Melville
Hotel Manager (uncredited)


Jean-Pierre Mocky
Band Leader (uncredited)
Henri San Juan
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Victor Tabournot
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
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