Romance / Fantasy / Drama /

Score: 76.6%( 275 votes )

Overview: 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.

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)