Orpheus
At the Café des Poètes in 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 also a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists upon accepting Orpheus and your human body away in her rolls royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld. Orpheus escapes from the car straight back into the land of the living to become obsessed with all the car radio. This movie is your fundamental 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