Orpheus

7.7

France

Romance Fantasy Drama

95 min

1950

Jean Marais Philippe Bordier Claude Borelli Jean Cocteau Renée Cosima Jacques Doniol-Valcroze René Lacourt Julien Maffre Jean-Pierre Melville Paul Amiot Jacques Varennes Pierre Bertin François Périer María Casares Marie Déa Henri Crémieux Juliette Gréco Roger Blin Edouard Dermithe André Carnège Jean-Pierre Mocky

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.