Orphea in Love

Overcoming their gray everyday reality through music, opera and dance, call center agent Nele and petty criminal Kolya find themselves soul mates; but they soon must pass tests of Greek mythological dimension, in a congenial fusion of opera and cinema.

Cinema and opera are places where reality is magically overcome – and suddenly the colleague in the call center begins to warble an aria and everyone joins in. For Nele, the opera is not only a place of escape from the dreary daily routine of work between piecework telephoning and evening duty in the checkroom of the opera house, but also part of her life and thus of this visually and acoustically exuberant film. Nele is able to stand in for the coughing diva on stage without further ado, and the story of her rise à la Star is born can begin. But before that, she had already met the petty criminal Kolya on the street, and their two lives were immediately fused in a joint dance choreography as an expression of their soul mate. But the Orpheus material from Greek mythology, on which director Axel Ranisch based his opera film with reversed main character constellation – Nele is Orpheus or rather Orphea here, Kolya Eurydice – puts Nele to the test after Kolya's accidental death.

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