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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.
Testament of Orpheus: Directed by Jean Cocteau. With Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour. The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
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- Biography, Fantasy
- Jean Cocteau
- 1960-02-18
Testament of Orpheus. Realizing he is not long for this world, an aging 18th century poet (Jean Marais) travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious, possibly post-apocalyptic ...
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- Jean Marais
- Jean Cocteau
- Fantasy
Testament of Orpheus. In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. With an eclectic cast that includes Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre ...
- The Poet
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). About the movie Director
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- 12
- Jean Cocteau
- 80 min
1h 23m. Sound. Mono. Color. Black and White. In an effort to understand the world in which he lives, poet Jean Cocteau, dressed in 18th-century clothing, contacts a scientist who is working on an invention that would enable him to enter a new dimension of time and space. After several unsuccessful attempts, the scientist finally succeeds by ...
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The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin's life. The professor has invented some bullets, which travel faster than light. With one of them he kills Cocteau, who is resurrected as his old self, but is still caught in the space between fantasy and ...
