Testament of Orpheus
1960/02/18 • Released • French
Overview
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.
Director : Jean Cocteau
Casts
Jean Cocteau
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Cégeste
Henri Crémieux
The Professor
François Périer
Heurtebise
Claudine Auger
Minerve
Françoise Arnoul
Self (uncredited)
Lucia Bosè
Orphée's Friend
Charles Aznavour
The Curious Man
Brigitte Bardot
Self (uncredited)
Jean Marais
Oedipe
Daniel Gélin
The Intern (uncredited)
Françoise Christophe
The Nurse (uncredited)
Nicole Courcel
The Young Mother (uncredited)
Daniel Moosmann
2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)
Yul Brynner
Court Usher (uncredited)
Pablo Picasso
A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Michael Goodliffe
English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Dargelos, the schoolboy
Alice Sapritch
Gypsy (uncredited)
Roger Vadim
Self (uncredited)
Françoise Sagan
A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Annette Stroyberg
A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Gypsy (uncredited)
María Casares
The Princess
Recommended
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
April 21, 1933
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures
January 27, 2018
Zero for Conduct
April 7, 1933
My Childhood
June 5, 1972
Kill Me Please
November 3, 2010
The Strange Ones
March 29, 1950
Alice T.
May 1, 2019
The Bronte Sisters
May 9, 1979
The Decline of the Century: Testament L.Z.
February 13, 1994
A Third Testament
October 13, 2022
The Test
December 29, 2021
The Human Voice
September 3, 2020
Beauty and the Beast
October 29, 1946
Lions for Lambs
October 22, 2007
Day for Night
May 24, 1973
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
August 7, 2015
Jules and Jim
January 23, 1962
Suffragette
October 16, 2015
The Animal Kingdom
October 4, 2023