A scuffle erupts at the Café des Poètes in Paris between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and a gang of disgruntled young upstarts. The death of a rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), prompts Orpheus to be summoned by a strange princess (Mara Casares), who insists on transporting him and the body in her Rolls-Royce. He finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess informs him that she is in truth the goddess Death. Orpheus escapes from the underworld in an automobile and returns to the land of the living, only to get captivated with the radio in the car. It is the third and last installment in Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which also includes The Blood of a Poet(1930), Orpheus(1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1961). (1960).
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A scuffle erupts at the Café des Poètes in Paris between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and a gang of disgruntled young upstarts. The death of a rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), prompts Orpheus to be summoned by a strange princess (Mara Casares), who insists on transporting him and the body in her Rolls-Royce. He finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess informs him that she is in truth the goddess Death. Orpheus escapes from the underworld in an automobile and returns to the land of the living, only to get captivated with the radio in the car. It is the third and last installment in Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which also includes The Blood of a Poet(1930), Orpheus(1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1961). (1960).
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