Cast 27

Jean Marais
Orphée

François Périer
Heurtebise

María Casares
Death

Marie Déa
Eurydice

Henri Crémieux
Editor

Juliette Gréco
Aglaonice

Roger Blin
The Poet

Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste

André Carnège
Judge
René Worms
Judge
Raymond Faure
Journalist

Pierre Bertin
Commissioner

Jacques Varennes
Judge

Paul Amiot
Judge (uncredited)

Philippe Bordier
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Claude Borelli
Une bacchante (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Brau
Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Renée Cosima
Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

René Lacourt
Postman (uncredited)

Julien Maffre
Police Officer (uncredited)
Claude Mauriac
(uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Melville
Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Mocky
Band Leader (uncredited)
Henri San Juan
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Victor Tabournot
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
Sound 3
Directing 2

Jean Cocteau
Director

Claude Pinoteau
Assistant Director
Camera 2

Nicolas Hayer
Director of Photography
Noël Martin
Camera Operator
Editing 2
Jacqueline Sadoul
Editor
Hélène Basté
Assistant Editor
Production 4
Émile Darbon
Production Manager
André Paulvé
Executive Producer
Jean-Marie Loutrel
Unit Production Manager
Alfred Marpaux
Production Designer
Art 2
Jean d'Eaubonne
Production Design
Albert Volper
Set Decoration
Writing 1

Jean Cocteau
Writer
Costume & Make-Up 2
Marcel Escoffier
Costume Design
Alexandre Marcus
Makeup Artist
Crew 1

Claude Pinoteau
Technical Advisor