Orpheus (1950)
Original title: Orphée
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess 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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Jean MaraisOrphée
François PérierHeurtebise
María CasaresDeath
Marie DéaEurydice
Henri CrémieuxEditor
Juliette GrécoAglaonice
Roger BlinThe Poet
Edouard DermitheJacques Cégeste
André CarnègeJudgeRené WormsJudgeRaymond FaureJournalist
Pierre BertinCommissionerKeywords
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What is Orpheus about?
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess 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).
How long is Orpheus?
Orpheus has a runtime of 95 minutes.
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