Orpheus
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.
Cast
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
Reviews
CinemaSerf
Accomplished poet "Orphée" (Jean Marais) is sitting in a café with a friend one afternoon when a fracas breaks out with some local students that necessitates the intervention of the police and causes a tragedy to occur. A woman in a Rolls Royce turns up and asks her aides to put an injured man into ...
