Orpheus
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), is killed, and a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists on shooting Orpheus and the body away within her rollsroyce. Finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces she actually is, in fact, Death. Orpheus leaks from the car straight back into the land of the family, only to eventually become obsessed with all the vehicle 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