Directed by: Jean Cocteau
Starring: Jean Marais, Francois Perier, Maria Casares, Marie Dea, Henri Cremieux, Juliette Greco, Roger Blin, Edouard Dermit, Rene Worms, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Pierre Mocky
95 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France
PLOT:
Orpheus is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orpheus's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orpheus goes after her into the underworld. Although they become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orpheus back out of the underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice.
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