Orpheus

Orpheus

1950 · 1 hr 52 min · Not Rated

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Directors

Jean Cocteau

Actors

  • Jean Marais
  • François Périer
  • María Casares

Credits: 9

Summary

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

More about this movie

Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice.

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