Storyline
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Released
29 September 1950
Runtime
1h 35min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
French
Production
Films du Palais Royal, Andre Paulve Film
Cast
Jean Marais
Orphée
François Périer
Heurtebise
María Casares
Death
Marie Déa
Eurydice
Henri Crémieux
Editor
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
Roger Blin
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
André Carnège
Judge
René Worms
Judge
Raymond Faure
Journalist
Pierre Bertin
Commissioner
Jacques Varennes
Judge
Paul Amiot
Judge (uncredited)
Philippe Bordier
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Claude Borelli
Une bacchante (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Brau
Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Renée Cosima
Une bacchante (uncredited)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
René Lacourt
Postman (uncredited)
Julien Maffre
Police Officer (uncredited)
Claude Mauriac
(uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Band Leader (uncredited)
Henri San Juan
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Victor Tabournot
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
More like this
The Blood of a Poet
7.19
Beauty and the Beast
7.5
Mogambo
6.4
The Little Foxes
7.477
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
4.8
The Queen's Lover
6.9
In the Eyes: Chapter 1
5.7
Adolescents
7.3
A Moment in the Reeds
6.2
Testament of Orpheus
7.7
To Have and Have Not
7.5
Au Hasard Balthazar
7.6
Corrina, Corrina
6.682
Pickpocket
7.29
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
7.469
Elevator to the Gallows
7.6
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
6.9
Being There
7.619
The Little Hours
5.8
Red Dot
5.895