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Orpheus

1950 ‧ Romance/Drama ‧ 1h 35m
7.9/10 · IMDb 89% · Rotten Tomatoes 4.1/5 · Letterboxd
At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermithe), is killed, and a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists on taking Orpheus...
Release date: November 29, 1950 (USA)
Director: Jean Cocteau
Screenplay: Jean Cocteau
Distributed by: DisCina
Box office: 1,149,396 admissions (France)
Cinematography: Nicolas Hayer