Testament of Orpheus

Testament of Orpheus (2024)

2024

Fantasy / Drama

7.6 from 10 with total 47 votes

1960-02-18

80 minutes

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet\'s heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau\'s Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

Jean Cocteau character Himself - the Poet

Françoise Arnoul character Elle-même (uncredited)

Claudine Auger character Minerve (uncredited)

Charles Aznavour character Le curieux / The Curious Man (uncredited)

Brigitte Bardot character Elle-même (uncredited)

Lucia Bosé character Une amie d'Orphée / Orphée's Friend (uncredited)

Yul Brynner character L'huissier / Court usher (uncredited)

Françoise Christophe character L'infirmière / The Nurse (uncredited)

Nicole Courcel character La mère maladroite / The Young Mother (uncredited)

Henri Crémieux character Le professeur / The Professor (uncredited)

Edouard Dermithe character Cégeste

Michael Goodliffe character English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Daniel Gélin character L'interne / The intern (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud character Dargelos / The schoolboy (uncredited)

Jean Marais character Oedipe (uncredited)

Daniel Moosmann character 2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)

Pablo Picasso character Un ami d'Orphée (uncredited)

François Périer character Heurtebise

Françoise Sagan character Une amie d'Orphée (uncredited)

Alice Sapritch character Une Gitane / Gipsy (uncredited)

Annette Stroyberg character Une amie d'Orphée (uncredited)

Roger Vadim character Lui-même (uncredited)

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte character Une gitane / Gipsy (uncredited)