Orpheus

Overview

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.

Directed by Jean Cocteau

Top 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

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René Worms

Judge

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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)

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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)

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