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Testament of Orpheus
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer88%as of 2025-10-11
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.3/10as of 2021-09-04
What it is
Testament of Orpheus is a 1960 black-and-white film with a few seconds of color film spliced into it. Directed by and starring Jean Cocteau, who plays himself as an 18th-century poet, the film includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre Leaud, and Yul Brynner. It is considered the final part of The Orphic Trilogy, following The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orphée (1950).
At a glance
- Genres
- Fantasy / Drama
- Original language
- French
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