Orpheus

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

Romance Fantasy Drama

Jean Marais

(Orphée)

François Périer

(Heurtebise)

María Casares

(Death)

Marie Déa

(Eurydice)

Henri Crémieux

(Editor)

Juliette Gréco

(Aglaonice)

Roger Blin

(The Poet)

Edouard Dermithe

(Jacques Cégeste)

André Carnège

(Judge)

René Worms

(Judge)

Raymond Faure

(Journalist)

Pierre Bertin

(Commissioner)

Jacques Varennes

(Judge)

Paul Amiot

(Judge (uncredited))

Philippe Bordier

(Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited))

Claude Borelli

(Une bacchante (uncredited))

Jean-Louis Brau

(Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited))

Jean Cocteau

(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))

Renée Cosima

(Une bacchante (uncredited))

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

(Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited))

René Lacourt

(Postman (uncredited))

Julien Maffre

(Police Officer (uncredited))

Claude Mauriac

((uncredited))

Jean-Pierre Melville

(Hotel Manager (uncredited))

Jean-Pierre Mocky

(Band Leader (uncredited))

Henri San Juan

(Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited))

Victor Tabournot

(Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited))