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Orpheus( 1950)

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Overview

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Jean Marais

      Orphée

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      François Périer

      Heurtebise

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      María Casares

      Death

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      Marie Déa

      Eurydice

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      Henri Crémieux

      Editor

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      Juliette Gréco

      Aglaonice

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      Roger Blin

      The Poet

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      Edouard Dermithe

      Jacques Cégeste

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      André Carnège

      Judge

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      René Worms

      Judge

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      Raymond Faure

      Journalist

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      Pierre Bertin

      Commissioner

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      Jacques Varennes

      Judge

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      Paul Amiot

      Judge (uncredited)

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      Philippe Bordier

      Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

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      Claude Borelli

      Une bacchante (uncredited)

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      Jean-Louis Brau

      Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

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      Jean Cocteau

      Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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      Renée Cosima

      Une bacchante (uncredited)

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      Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

      Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

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      René Lacourt

      Postman (uncredited)

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      Julien Maffre

      Police Officer (uncredited)

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      Claude Mauriac

      (uncredited)

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      Jean-Pierre Melville

      Hotel Manager (uncredited)

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      Jean-Pierre Mocky

      Band Leader (uncredited)

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      Henri San Juan

      Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

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      Victor Tabournot

      Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

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    Review 1Discussion

    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Feb 05 2024
    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 at a...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • paris, france
    • mythology
    • greek mythology