- Country: France
- Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Release: 1950-11-29
- Director: Jean Cocteau
- Writers: Jean Cocteau
- Language: French
- Stars: Jean Marais , François Périer , María Casares , Marie Déa , Henri Crémieux , Juliette Gréco , Roger Blin , Edouard Dermithe , André Carnège , René Worms
- Runtime: 112 min
- Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 nominations total
- AKA: Orfeas kai Evridiki (Greece) , Orphée (Canada) , Orpheus , Orfeusz (Hungary) , Orfeo (Spain) , オルフェ (Japan) , Orphée (France, French Republic) , Орфей , Orpheus (United States of America) , Orphée (Australia) , Orfeus (Finland) , Орфей (Russian Federation) , Orfeu (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , 奧菲斯 (Taiwan) , Orpheus (Austria) , Orfeas (Greece) , Orfe (Turkey) , Orfeo (Argentina) , Orfej (Croatia) , Kærlighedens mysterium (Denmark) , Орфей (Bulgaria) , Орфей (Ukraine) , Orphée , Orfeo (Italy) , Orfeo (Mexico) , Orfeu (Brazil) , Orpheus (Canada) , Orphée (Finland) , Orfeus (Denmark) , Orphée - Kärlekens mysterium (Sweden) , Orpheus (United Kingdom) , Ορφέας και Ευρυδίκη (Greece) , Orfeusz (Poland) , Ορφέας (Greece)
- Plot:
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
- IMDB:tt0041719
Orpheus Cast · · · ALL
Jean Cocteau
Director
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
Pierre Bertin
Commissioner
Jacques Varennes
Judge
Paul Amiot
Judge (uncredited)
Claude Borelli
Une bacchante (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)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Band Leader (uncredited)