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The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevins life. The professor has invented some bullets, which travel faster than light. With one of them he kills Cocteau, who is resurrected as his old self, but is still caught in the space between fantasy and reality. At a gypsy camp a woman saves a photo out of the fire and restores it. On the photo Cocteau recognizes Cégeste from his film Orphée. He tears the photo into pieces and throws it into the sea. Immediately Cégeste himself jumps out of the water. He brings Cocteau to a rogatory commission led by Heurtebise and The Princess from the film Orphée. Cocteau admits that he has constantly attempted to enter a world which is not his own, a world that is beyond the limits of man, and that disobedience is like a religion for him. The commission imposes on him the sentence of life. In a hall inside some stone ruins the goddess Athena kills Cocteau with her spear. His friends assemble around his body, but he resurrects from death, and walks away along a small road. Cégeste comes out from a rock and draws Cocteau into it, because they dont belong to life on earth.
Perpetually haunted by the profound joy of art and creation, , as a white-haired 18th-century poet, makes a do-or-die effort to attain divinity and complete his journey of enlightenment. In his swan song, and the final part of The Orphic Trilogy--preceded by and --the troubled poet swings back and forth through time, blurring the boundaries of life and death, the present and the future. As mythological creatures, obsessions, and fantasies mingle without chronological order, cryptic symbolism--embodied by , , , and --brings everything full circle, composing the testament of Orpheus, the poet.
Jean Cocteau
Self - the Poet
Françoise Arnoul
Elle-même
Claudine Auger
Minerve
Charles Aznavour
Le Curieux
Lucia Bosè
Une amie d'Orphée
Yul Brynner
L'huissier
María Casares
La princesse
Françoise Christophe
L'infirmière
Michèle Comte
La petite fille
Nicole Courcel
La mère maladroite
Henri Crémieux
Le professeur
Edouard Dermithe
Cégeste
Luis Miguel Dominguín
Un ami d'Orphée
Guy Dute
Le premier homme chien
Michael Goodliffe
English Narrator
Daniel Gélin
L'interne
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Eurydice
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