Orphea in Love
Once a month, the Goethe-Institut collaborates with the Cinémathèque québécoise to present a significant work of contemporary German cinema: fiction films, documentaries, bold and entertaining productions by established and emerging filmmakers.
A young call centre agent falls in love with a petty criminal street dancer. She is Orpheus. He is Eurydice. She expresses herself through singing, he articulates himself through his dance. For her great love, she descends into the underworld, faces her old demons, and learns to trust again… Orphea in Love is a sweet homage to the opera and to love itself while simultaneously telling its story through a mix of realism and kitsch that, in a way, feels just as close to Flashdance as to Gluck or Puccini.
Axel Ranisch
Axel Ranisch is a German actor, film and television director and author. Ranisch lived in his childhood in Berlin-Lichtenberg. He studied until 2004 theatre pedagogy in Flecken Zechlin. From 2004 to 2011 Ranisch studied at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. He works as film and theatre director and as actor in different film, theatre and tv-productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film Pink Children (2012) together with 4 German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim. In 2018, he published as author the book* Nackt über Berlin*.
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