Orpheus
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), is killed, and a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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Genre: Best Fantasy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: André Carnège, Edouard Dermithe, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Jean Marais, Juliette Gréco, María Casares, Marie Déa, René Worms, Roger Blin
Country: France
Company: Andre Paulve Film, Films du Palais Royal
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award, 2 nominations total
Duration:
1h 35minRelease: 1950
Release Date: 1950-09-29
IMDb: 7.9
TMDB: 7.616
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
FilmAffinity: 7.5