Orfeo is a 1985 opera film co-written and directed by Claude Goretta. A co-production between Switzerland, Italy, France and Canada, it is an adaptation of the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. It premiered out of competition at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast Gino Quilico as Orfeo Audrey Michael as Euridice / Speranza / Éco Carolyn Watkinson as the messenger Danielle Borst as Proserpina Frangiskos Voutsinis as Plutone / Caronte Colette Alliot-Lugaz as Music Éric Tappy as Apollo François Le Roux as the spirit / a shepherd Shelley Whittingham as the nymph Guy de Mey as a shepherd Henri Ledroit as a shepherd
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