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Testament of Orpheus

7.7 80 mins Fantasy   1960
Les Editions Cinégraphiques   Cinédis  
Director(s): Jean Cocteau

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.

Casts of Testament of Orpheus

Jean Cocteau

as The Poet

Edouard Dermithe

as Cégeste

Henri Crémieux

as The Professor

François Périer

as Heurtebise

Claudine Auger

as Minerve

Françoise Arnoul

as Self (uncredited)

Lucia Bosè

as Orphée's Friend

Charles Aznavour

as The Curious Man

Brigitte Bardot

as Self (uncredited)

Jean Marais

as Oedipe

Daniel Gélin

as The Intern (uncredited)

Françoise Christophe

as The Nurse (uncredited)

Nicole Courcel

as The Young Mother (uncredited)

Daniel Moosmann

as 2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)

Yul Brynner

as Court Usher (uncredited)

Pablo Picasso

as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Michael Goodliffe

as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

as Dargelos, the schoolboy

Alice Sapritch

as Gypsy (uncredited)

Roger Vadim

as Self (uncredited)

Françoise Sagan

as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Annette Stroyberg

as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

as Gypsy (uncredited)

María Casares

as The Princess

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