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Certificate PG

Cast Jean Marais Maria Casares Marie Dea Francois Perier

Directors Jean Cocteau

Screenwriters Jean Cocteau

Running Time 95 minutes

Orphee
Jean Cocteau's enigmatic reworking of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Plot
Having encountered a mysterious Princess on the death of his friend, Cegeste, Orpheus (Jean Marais) becomes so wrapped up in his poetry that it takes the Princess's angelic servant, Heurtebise, to persuade him to enter the Underworld to reclaim his dead wife, Eurydice, from her clutches.

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