Orphea in Love

Orphea in Love

107 mins | Drama, Music | Oct. 29, 2022

Orphea in Love, now, fuses many of these diverse forays for a singular piece of musical theatre cinema. Structurally a musical or operetta, it features famous opera tunes paired with modern classical ballet choreographies. Befittingly, the title might insinuate a version of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 Orphée aux enfers (we have that somewhere else in the programme, though!), but the story of young, multi-job hassled Nele, her dream of opera stardom, and her love for dancer Kolya feels in its razzmatazzy mix of realism and kitsch simultaneously closer to Flashdance (1983; Adrian Lyne) and the average Lady Gaga music video. Wow. WOW!

Orphea in Love

107 mins | Drama, Music | Oct. 29, 2022

Orphea in Love
Orphea in Love, now, fuses many of these diverse forays for a singular piece of musical theatre cinema. Structurally a musical or operetta, it features famous opera tunes paired with modern classical ballet choreographies. Befittingly, the title might insinuate a version of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 Orphée aux enfers (we have that somewhere else in the programme, though!), but the story of young, multi-job hassled Nele, her dream of opera stardom, and her love for dancer Kolya feels in its razzmatazzy mix of realism and kitsch simultaneously closer to Flashdance (1983; Adrian Lyne) and the average Lady Gaga music video. Wow. WOW!
Producers
Original title Orphea in Love
Directors Axel Ranisch
Writers

Cast

Mirjam Mesak

as Nele

Ursina Lardi

as Adina Nicoletta

Christina Große

as Elke Trautmann

Ursula Werner

as Lilo

Heiko Pinkowski

as Höllbach

Galeano Salas

as Self

Levy Sekgapane

as Jupiter

Hardy Schwetter

as Reverend Hary Hardon