Orphea In Love

07/11/2024 - quanly

Feature Film/ Germany/ 107 min/2023

Director: Axel Ranisch

Screenwriter: Sönke Andresen, Axel Ranisch

Director of Photography: Dennis Pauls

Production: Anne Baeker, Dennis Pauls, Heiko Pinkowski, Axel Ransich

Music Composer: Martina Eisenreich

Production Designer:

Cast: Mirjam Mesak, Guido Badalamenti, Ursula Werner, Ursina Lardi, Heiko Pinkowski, Galeano Salas, Konstantin Krimmel

Synopsis:

Orphea, a young singer working at a call center, falls in love with a thief who passes away in a car accident. Like Orpheus, Orphea is granted the opportunity to bring her loved one back from the underworld, and just like in Gluck’s opera, the story has a happy ending.

Director’s biography:

Alex RANISCH (1983, Germany) was born in Berlin and shot his first short film when he was 20. In the following years, he estimates he made around eighty short films, taking care of acting, composing, editing and directing. He studied film direction in 2004 at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. His first feature film Dicke Mädchen (2012), won several awards, including the Jury Prize at Hamburg International Queer Film Festival.

Filmography: Rythmus im Kopf (2005, short), Mehr als Nichts (2005, short), Hollbüllhuus (2006, short), Dicke Mädchen (2011), Ich Fühl Mich Disco/I Feel Like Disco (2013), Alki, Alki (2014), Tatort (2017/18, TV series), Wir (2021, TV series), Nackt über Berlin (2022, TV series), Orphea in Love (2022)