Orpheus(Orphée)
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France · 1950
1h 52m
Director Jean Cocteau
Starring Jean Marais, María Casares, François Périer, Marie Déa
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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A modern twist on the Greek myth. At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between poet Orphée and some upstarts, and a rival poet is killed. A mysterious princess arrives and insists on taking Orpheé and the body away in her Rolls Royce, and Orpheé soon finds himself in the underworld.
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