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7:30 PM, EST

Orphea in Love

Film screening|Goethe-Cinema

  • Amphitheater, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

  • Language Original version with English subtitles.
  • Price Free, suggested donation: 5 $
  • Part of series: Once upon a time... | Goethe-Cinema

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

The Goethe-Institut Ottawa's monthly thematic film series on German cinema at Saint Paul University (223 Main St, Amphiteatre):

Orphea in love

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

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".