Film · Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Orpheus (1950)
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.
- Director
- Jean Cocteau
- Writers
- Jean Cocteau
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- September 29, 1950
- Original title
- Orphée
Cast
Jean MaraisOrphée
François PérierHeurtebise
María CasaresDeath
Marie DéaEurydice
Henri CrémieuxEditor
Juliette GrécoAglaonice
Roger BlinThe Poet
Édouard DermitheJacques Cégeste
André CarnègeJudge- René WormsJudge
- Raymond FaureJournalist
Pierre BertinCommissioner
Jacques VarennesJudge
Paul AmiotJudge (uncredited)
Philippe BordierYoung Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Claude BorelliUne bacchante (uncredited)- Jean-Louis BrauYoung Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)
Jean CocteauNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
Renée CosimaUne bacchante (uncredited)
Jacques Doniol-ValcrozeYoung Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
