Orpheus

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

• 
  Jean Cocteau
• 
  Claude Pinoteau

• 
  Jean Marais
  Orphée
• 
  François Périer
  Heurtebise
• 
  María Casares
  Death
• 
  Marie Déa
  Eurydice
• 
  Henri Crémieux
  Editor
• 
  Juliette Gréco
  Aglaonice
• 
  Roger Blin
  The Poet
• 
  Édouard Dermithe
  Jacques Cégeste
• 
  Edouard Dermithe
  Jacques Cégeste
• 
  André Carnège
  Judge
• 
  René Worms
  Judge
• 
  Raymond Faure
  Journalist
• 
  Pierre Bertin
  Commissioner
• 
  Jacques Varennes
  Judge
• 
  Paul Amiot
  Judge (uncredited)
• 
  Philippe Bordier
  Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
• 
  Claude Borelli
  Une bacchante (uncredited)
• 
  Jean-Louis Brau
  Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)
• 
  Jean Cocteau
  Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 
  Renée Cosima
  Une bacchante (uncredited)
• 
  Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
  Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)