Testament of Orpheus
Le Testament d'Orphée
Release: 1960-02-18
·Runtime: 80m
·★ 7.7
Fantasy
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Les Editions Cinégraphiques
Cinédis
Cast
Brigitte Bardot
as Self (uncredited)
Yul Brynner
as Court Usher (uncredited)
Annette Stroyberg
as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
as The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
as Cégeste
Françoise Christophe
as The Nurse (uncredited)
Daniel Moosmann
as 2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)
Alice Sapritch
as Gypsy (uncredited)
Jean Marais
as Oedipe
Daniel Gélin
as The Intern (uncredited)
Michael Goodliffe
as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Roger Vadim
as Self (uncredited)
Françoise Sagan
as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
as Gypsy (uncredited)
María Casares
as The Princess
François Périer
as Heurtebise
Claudine Auger
as Minerve
Nicole Courcel
as The Young Mother (uncredited)
Pablo Picasso
as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Dargelos, the schoolboy
Henri Crémieux
as The Professor
Françoise Arnoul
as Self (uncredited)
Lucia Bosè
as Orphée's Friend
Charles Aznavour
as The Curious Man
