Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.
Jean Cocteau
as The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
as Cégeste
Henri Crémieux
as The Professor
François Périer
as Heurtebise
Claudine Auger
as Minerve
Françoise Arnoul
as Self (uncredited)
Lucia Bosè
as Orphée's Friend
Charles Aznavour
as The Curious Man
Brigitte Bardot
as Self (uncredited)
Jean Marais
as Oedipe
Daniel Gélin
as The Intern (uncredited)
Françoise Christophe
as The Nurse (uncredited)
