Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
![Edouard Dermithe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20175-edouard-dermithe.webp)
Edouard Dermithe
Cégeste
![Jean Cocteau](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20174-jean-cocteau.webp)
Jean Cocteau
Self - the Poet
![Henri Crémieux](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20180-henri-cremieux.webp)
Henri Crémieux
The Professor
![Françoise Arnoul](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/53789-francoise-arnoul.webp)
Françoise Arnoul
Elle-même
![François Périer](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20176-francois-perier.webp)
François Périer
Heurtebise
![Claudine Auger](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41708-claudine-auger.webp)
Claudine Auger
Minerve
![Charles Aznavour](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41913-charles-aznavour.webp)
Charles Aznavour
Le Curieux
![Lucía Bosè](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/49571-lucia-bose.webp)
Lucía Bosè
Une amie d'Orphée
![Yul Brynner](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4418-yul-brynner.webp)
Yul Brynner
L'huissier
![María Casares](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/20177-maria-casares.webp)
María Casares
La princesse
![Brigitte Bardot](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22936-brigitte-bardot.webp)
Brigitte Bardot
Self (uncredited)
![Françoise Christophe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11992-francoise-christophe.webp)
Françoise Christophe
L'infirmière
![Jean Marais](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11981-jean-marais.webp)
Jean Marais
Oedipe
![Nicole Courcel](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/52307-nicole-courcel.webp)
Nicole Courcel
La mère maladroite
![Daniel Gélin](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/37608-daniel-gelin.webp)
Daniel Gélin
The Intern (uncredited)
![Daniel Moosmann](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/159569-daniel-moosmann.webp)
Daniel Moosmann
2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)
![Roland Pontoizeau](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Roland Pontoizeau
Cinematographer
![Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/172482-marie-josephe-yoyotte.webp)
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Editor
![Pierre Guffroy](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/223727-pierre-guffroy.webp)
Pierre Guffroy
ProductionDesigner
![Pablo Picasso](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/110777-pablo-picasso.webp)
Pablo Picasso
A friend of Orphée (uncredited)
![Michael Goodliffe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/36849-michael-goodliffe.webp)
Michael Goodliffe
English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
![Jean-Pierre Léaud](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1099-jean-pierre-leaud.webp)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Dargelos, the schoolboy
![Alice Sapritch](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/88213-alice-sapritch.webp)
Alice Sapritch
Gypsy (uncredited)
![Roger Vadim](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/47718-roger-vadim.webp)
Roger Vadim
Self (uncredited)
Media.
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 18, 1960
Original NameLe Testament d'Orphée
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Genres
Last updated:
Wiki.
Testament of Orpheus (French: Le testament d'Orphée) is a 1960 black-and-white film with a few seconds of color film spliced into it. Directed by and starring Jean Cocteau, who plays himself as an 18th-century poet, the film includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre Leaud, and Yul Brynner. It is considered the final part of The Orphic Trilogy, following The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orphée (1950).
One critic described it as a "wry, self-conscious re-examination of a lifetime's obsessions" with Cocteau placing himself at the center of the mythological and fictional world he spun throughout his books, films, plays and paintings. The film includes numerous instances of "double takes", including one scene where Cocteau, walking past himself, looks back to see himself in what was described by one scholar as "a retrospective on the Cocteau œuvre".The New York Times called it "self-serving", noting that the pretension of the film was certainly intended by Cocteau as his last statement made on film: "as much a long-winded self-analysis as an extraordinary succession of visually arresting images".Picasso had introduced Cocteau to the photographer Lucien Clergue who was brought in to photo-document the film's production. His black-and-white stills were published in 2001 as Jean Cocteau and The Testament of Orpheus.
The Orphic Trilogy.
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