Testament of Orpheus

The Testament of Orpheus
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Directed by	Jean Cocteau
Produced by	Jean Thuillier
Written by	Jean Cocteau
Starring	Jean Cocteau Édouard Dermit Henri Crémieux María Casares
Music by	Georges Auric George Frideric Handel Martial Solal
Edited by	Marie-Josephe Yoyotte
Release dates	18 February 1960 (1960-02-18)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Testament of Orpheus (French: Le testament d'Orphée) is a 1960 film directed by and starring Jean Cocteau. It is considered the final part of the Orphic Trilogy, following The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orphée (1950). In the cast are Charles Aznavour, Lucia Bosé, María Casares, Nicole Courcel, Luis Miguel Dominguín, Daniel Gélin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Serge Lifar, Jean Marais, François Périer and Françoise Sagan.

It also includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso and Yul Brynner. The film is in black-and-white, with just a few seconds of color film spliced in.

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Jean Cocteau

Bibliography

Literature	Antigone Les Enfants Terribles The Human Voice The Infernal Machine Les Parents terribles L'Aigle à deux têtes

Films directed	The Blood of a Poet Beauty and the Beast L'Aigle à deux têtes Les Parents terribles Orpheus La Villa Santo-Sospir Testament of Orpheus

Films written	L'Éternel retour Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Les Enfants Terribles Thomas the Impostor

Librettos	Parade Les mariés de la tour Eiffel Oedipus rex Le jeune homme et la mort

Related topics	Bastion Museum Jean Cocteau Museum The Orphic Trilogy

Orpheus and Eurydice

Characters	Eurydice Orpheus

Orphean operas	Euridice (1600, Peri) Euridice (1602, Caccini) L'Orfeo (1607, Monteverdi) La morte d'Orfeo (1619, Landi) Orfeo (1647, Rossi) Orfeo (1672, Sartorio) La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (c. 1685, Charpentier) Orpheus (1726, Telemann) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762, Gluck) discography L'anima del filosofo (1791, Haydn) Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, Offenbach) Orpheus und Eurydike (1921, Krenek) L'Orfeide (1925, Malipiero) Orpheus and Eurydice (1975, rock opera) The Mask of Orpheus (1986, Birtwistle) The Corridor (2009)

Musicals	Orpheus & Eurydice

Plays	Eurydice/Point of Departure (1941, Anouilh) Orfeu da Conceição (1956, de Moraes) Orpheus Descending (1957, Williams) Eurydice (2003, Ruhl)

Films	The Orphic Trilogy The Blood of a Poet (1930) Orphée (1950) Testament of Orpheus (1959) Black Orpheus (1959) Evrydiki BA 2O37 (1975) Parking (1985) Orfeu (1999)

Poetry	Sir Orfeo (c. late thirteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene (c.1470) Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) "Eurydice" (1999)

Novels	The Medusa Frequency (1937) The Einstein Intersection (1967) Gravity's Rainbow (1973) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Veniss Underground (2003)

Art	Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Albums	Reflections (1970) Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) Metamorpheus (2005) Hadestown (2010)

Ballet	Orpheus (1948) Chaconne (1976)

Video games	The Battle of Olympus Don't Look Back

Related	The Gaze of Orpheus Orpheus Monument The Second Mrs Kong The Corridor Orpheus no Mado Orphism