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Orpheus(Movie, 1950)

Original title: "Orphée" (French/FR)
1h 35min | Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
OrpheusRating: 3.8/5 (with 101101 votes)
Orpheus (French: Orphée; also the title used in the UK) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais. It is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960). ()
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About Orpheus

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, only to become obsessed with the car radio.

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Trailer for Orpheus + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

New Trailer for Orphée - back in cinemas 19 October | BFI(Trailer, 1:30)

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Shot in: Paris
Plays in: Paris
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR)
Translated into 17 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/29/1950
Director: Jean Cocteau
Producer: André Paulvé
Screenwriter: Jean Cocteau
Director of Photography: Nicolas Hayer
Composer: Georges Auric
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Kærlighedens mysterium"
"Orfeo"
"Ορφέας"
"Ορφέας και Ευριδίκη"
"Orfej"
"オルフェ"
"오르페"
"Orfeusz"
"Orfeu"
"Орфей"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

3 movies in the Collection

1932 The Blood of a Poet ("Le Sang d'un poète")
1950 Orpheus
1960 Testament of Orpheus ("Le Testament d'Orphée")

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Other movies with this title: Orpheus (2006), Orpheus (BA, 2013), Orpheus (2015), Orpheus (EE, 2019), Orpheus (RU, 2020)

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