Poster Orpheus

Title: Orpheus

Original Title: Orphée

Year: 1950

Info

Release Dates

  • United States: November 29 1950

Plot

Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau?s famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.

Cast

Director:

Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau

Jean Marais

Jean Marais

Orphée

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco

Aglaonice

Henri Crémieux

Henri Crémieux

The Editor

Pierre Bertin

Pierre Bertin

Le commissaire

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Narrator

Soundtrack from 'Orpheus'

Dance of the Blessed Souls -- from Orphée et Eurydice

Compuesta por

Christoph Willibald Gluck

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