Orpheus

Name: Orpheus
Director: Jean Cocteau
Released: 1950
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Cast: Jean Marais, Henri Crémieux, François Périer, Maria Casarès, Juliette Gréco

Orphée

by Jean Cocteau0h001950France

Recommended byAkira Kurosawa, Michel Ocelot

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

Cast and crew

Credits
- Directed by : Jean Cocteau
- Screenplay : Jean Cocteau
- Décors : Jean d'Eaubonne
- Costumes : Marcel Escoffier
- Editor : Jacqueline Sadoul
- Original score : Georges Auric
- Producer : André Paulvé
- Producing company : Les Films André Paulvé, Films du Palais Royal
- Chef opérateur : Nicolas Hayer
- Ingénieur son : Pierre-Louis Calvet
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1950
- French release date : 29 septembre 1950
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Français

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This film is recommended by
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Orpheus

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Beauty and the Beast

The Blood of a Poet

Le Testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi

From the same year

La Ronde

Rashōmon

In a Lonely Place

With the same cast

Jean Marais

Donkey Skin

Beauty and the Beast

White Nights

Henri Crémieux

Donkey Skin

Stormy Waters

The Young Girls of Rochefort

François Périer

The Red Circle

The Samurai

The End of the Day

Maria Casarès

Children of Paradise

Wench

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Juliette Gréco

Bonjour Tristesse

This film is recommended by

Akira Kurosawa

Michel Ocelot