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Orpheus

1950 1h 35m
Romance Fantasy Drama
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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.

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Jean Marais
Jean Marais
Orphée
François Périer
François Périer
Heurtebise
María Casares
María Casares
Death
Marie Déa
Marie Déa
Eurydice
Henri Crémieux
Henri Crémieux
Editor
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
Roger Blin
Roger Blin
The Poet
Édouard Dermithe
Édouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste

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2024-02-05

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 her car. Shen then rather bossily requires the writer to accompany her as a witness. He assumes they are going to hospital, but it turns out the man - "Cegeste" (Edouard Dermithe) is already dead and that she (María Casares), well she is certainly not the "princess" she purports to be. If you're ...