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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 taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes...
Cast
Jean Marais
Orphée
María Casares
la mort
François Périer
Heurtebise
Marie Déa
Eurydice
Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice
Henri Crémieux
l'éditeur
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
Roger Blin
le poète
Pierre Bertin
le commissaire
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#84 on The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema Empire
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