A brawl breaks out between Orphée (Jean Marais) and a gang of enraged upstarts in Paris' Café des Poètes. Orpheus and the body of a rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), are taken away by a strange princess (Mara Casares) in a Rolls-Royce. Orphée finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess reveals herself to be Death. Orpheus returns to the living in an automobile, only to get fascinated with the car radio. The Orphic Trilogy includes The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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A brawl breaks out between Orphée (Jean Marais) and a gang of enraged upstarts in Paris' Café des Poètes. Orpheus and the body of a rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), are taken away by a strange princess (Mara Casares) in a Rolls-Royce. Orphée finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess reveals herself to be Death. Orpheus returns to the living in an automobile, only to get fascinated with the car radio. The Orphic Trilogy includes The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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