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Orpheus

7.6 95 mins Romance   Fantasy   1950
Films du Palais Royal   Andre Paulve Film  
Director(s): Jean Cocteau

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.

Casts of Orpheus

Jean Marais

as Orphée

François Périer

as Heurtebise

María Casares

as Death

Marie Déa

as Eurydice

Henri Crémieux

as Editor

Juliette Gréco

as Aglaonice

Roger Blin

as The Poet

Edouard Dermithe

as Jacques Cégeste

André Carnège

as Judge

René Worms

as Judge

Raymond Faure

as Journalist

Pierre Bertin

as Commissioner

Jacques Varennes

as Judge

Paul Amiot

as Judge (uncredited)

Philippe Bordier

as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Claude Borelli

as Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Brau

as Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Renée Cosima

as Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

René Lacourt

as Postman (uncredited)

Julien Maffre

as Police Officer (uncredited)

Claude Mauriac

as (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Melville

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Mocky

as Band Leader (uncredited)

Henri San Juan

as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Victor Tabournot

as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

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