Movielogr
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Directed by Jean Cocteau
Overview
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.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Jean Cocteau | Edouard Dermithe | Henri Crémieux | François Périer | Claudine Auger | Françoise Arnoul | Lucia Bosé | Charles Aznavour | Brigitte Bardot | Jean Marais | Daniel Gélin | Françoise Christophe | Nicole Courcel | Daniel Moosmann | Yul Brynner | Pablo Picasso | Michael Goodliffe | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Alice Sapritch | Roger Vadim | Françoise Sagan | Annette Stroyberg | Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte | María Casares