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Orphea in Love

Film screening|Achtung Film! | New at Cinémathèque québecoise

  • La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal

  • Original version with English subtitles.
  • General admission: 13$

Orphea in Love, dir. Axel Ranisch | Still | 1 x 1 © Sehr Gute Filme

Orphea in Love, dir. Axel Ranisch | Still | 2x3 x 1 © Sehr Gute Filme

On October 4, 2023 at 6:00 PM at the Cinémathèque québecoise (335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, H2X 1K1):

Orphea in love

Germany | 2022 | 107 min.
Director: Axel Ranisch
With: Mirjam Mesak, Guido Badalamenti, Heiko Pinkowski, Ursina Lardi, Ursula Werner, Christina Große

Canadian premiere

Nele is a call center agent from Estonia who earns her money on the side as a dresser at the State Opera in Munich. By a crazy coincidence, talent scout Höllbach becomes aware of Nele's singing talent and offers her the great chance of a career as an opera singer. But when Nele falls in love with the petty criminal street dancer Kolya, she must face the demons of her past and descend into the underworld.

Axel Ranisch's modern adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cinematic-musical opera pastiche between Puccini, Handel and Christian Steiffen, the self-proclaimed "God of Schlager".