This first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet's obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.
Year - 1930
Directed By - Jean Cocteau
Written By - Jean Cocteau
Produced By - Le Vicomte de Noailles
Starring - Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac
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