Credits
Cast

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)
Art
Jean d'Eaubonne
Production Design
Albert Volper
Set Decoration
Camera
Noël Martin
Camera Operator

Nicolas Hayer
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
Marcel Escoffier
Costume Design
Alexandre Marcus
Makeup Artist
Directing

Claude Pinoteau
Assistant Director, Technical Advisor

Jean Cocteau
Director, Writer
Editing
Hélène Basté
Assistant Editor
Jacqueline Sadoul
Editor
Production
André Paulvé
Executive Producer
Alfred Marpaux
Production Designer
Émile Darbon
Production Manager
Jean-Marie Loutrel
Unit Production Manager
Sound
Jacques Météhen
Conductor

Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Pierre-Louis Calvet
Sound