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At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess 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 in the car back to the land of the living, onl...
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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#210 on 500 Essential Cult Movies Jennifer Eiss
#84 on The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema Empire
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