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Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphees 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.
The poet Orphée is popular among the general public but detested by the avant-garde at the Café des Poètes. A young poet is killed by two motorbikes just outside the café. His patroness, called The Princess, brings the body to her car, and asks Orphée to come along as a witness. From the car radio a monotonous voice is reciting meaningless lines, which Orphée conceives as the fresh inspiration he has been looking for to renew his writing. In a deserted house he witnesses how The Princess revives the dead poet and disappears with him into a mirror. The chauffeur Heurtebis takes Orphée back home, where Eurydice is longing to tell him that she is pregnant. Orphée ignores her, and sneaks out to the garage, to listen to the captivating voice in the car radio. When Eurydice leaves the house, the two motorbikes kill her on the road. Heurtebis shows the remorseful Orphée how to follow Eurydice through a mirror. When Orphée finds Eurydice in the other world, a court allows them to return to life under the condition that he never looks at her. Orphée is tormented by conflicting feelings, because he is also in love with The Princess, his personal Death.
Jean Marais
Orphée
François Périer
Heurtebise
María Casares
The Princess - Death
Marie Déa
Eurydice
Henri Crémieux
L'éditeur
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
Roger Blin
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
André Carnège
Judge
René Worms
Judge
Raymond Faure
Journaliste
Pierre Bertin
Le commissaire
Jacques Varennes
Judge
Paul Amiot
Judge
Philippe Bordier
Young Man at Café des Poètes
Claude Borelli
Une bacchante
Jean-Louis Brau
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Jean Cocteau
Narrator
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