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...
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the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960). The film...
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Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. Several etymologies for the name Orpheus have been proposed. A probable suggestion...
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Jean Cocteau (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside...
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roles, in movies such as Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Testament of Orpheus (1960). In 1959, he and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, engaged...
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Claudine Auger (category French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni)
Cocteau cast Auger in an uncredited role as a tall ballerina in Testament of Orpheus (1960). When she was 18, she married the 43-year-old writer-director...
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Orpheus, or Orphée (also the title used in the UK), 1950 Testament of Orpheus, or Le testament d'Orphée, 1960 The Criterion Collection has released the...
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Orfeo ed Euridice (redirect from Orpheus & Euridyka)
Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by...
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Yul Brynner (category People of the United States Office of War Information)
made a cameo in Testament of Orpheus. Although the public received him well in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a Western adaptation of Seven Samurai for...
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María Casares (category Children of prime ministers of Spain)
(1950) with Jean Marais and François Périer and in his Testament d'Orphée (Testament of Orpheus) (1960). In 1989, she was nominated for the César Award...
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