Orpheus
At the Café des Poètes at Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and Also a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), is murdered, and a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists upon shooting Orpheus and the human body away in her Rolls-Royce. Finds himself at the underworld. Orpheus leaks from the car back into the land of the family, only to become obsessed with the automobile radio. This picture is the central element of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
Released: 1950-09-29