Axel Ranisch’s music film
Estonian premiere:
ORPHEA IN LOVE
A film by Axel Ranisch
Cast: Mirjam Mesak, Guido Badalamenti, Ursula Werner, Galeano Salas, Heiko Pinkowski, Ursina Lardi, Christina Große, Serge Dorny, Tim Oliver Schultz, Christian Steiffen et al.
Germany 2022, 107 minutes
Ticket price: 15 €
Come and be part of an exclusive red carpet premiere of Axel Ranisch’s music film “Orphea in Love” in the Estonian National Opera, starring a young and talented Estonian soprano Mirjam Mesak. The event features a pre-screening signing of autographs and an after-screening interview with Mirjam Mesak and director Axel Ranisch hosted by Neeme Raud.
“Orphea in Love” is the story of Orphea, a young singer working in a call center. She falls in love with a thief, who dies in a car crash. Like Orpheus, Orphea is granted to bring back her loved one from the underworld and exactly like in Gluck’s opera there is a happy ending, but the film has another pace than opera can sometimes have. Just as in the good old opera though, the music always seems to start when time stands still, and the characters turn inward to escape into their dreamworld.
“Orphea in Love” is a sweet homage to the opera and to love itself while simultaneously telling its story in a mix of realism and kitsch that, in a way, feels just as close to Flashdance as to Gluck or Puccini.
Producer: EuroArts Music, schöne neue filme & SEHR GUTE FILME in co-production with BR/Arte, Bayerische Staatsoper, SHOOTnPost
Mirjam Mesak: “I am glad that the film I hold very dear to me will finally reach the Estonian audiences! This project started already in 2020 when I received a phone call from the director Axel Ranisch. At the height of the pandemic, we began talking about the scenario of the film and I was very happy that Axel wanted my character to be an Estonian girl, whom we later named Nele Tamm. There is a little bit of me, a little bit of Estonia, a little bit of opera and definitely a lot of love in this movie!”
SCHEDULE
18.00 Doors open, bars and cafés are open
18.15 Signing of autographs in front of the White Hall
19.00 FILM
20.50 Interview with Mirjam Mesak and Axel Ranisch hosted by Neeme Raud
AWARDS:
- Septemberfest of the Bayerische Staatsoper (World Premiere)
- 56. Internationale Hofer Filmtage
- 52. International Film Festival Rotterdam (International Premiere)
- 32. FilmFestival Cottbus
- 44. Biberacher Filmfestspiele
- 32. Kinofest Lünen
- 16. Ahrenshooper Filmnächte
- Curaçao International Film Festival, 2023
- Grand Prix, Golden Prague 2023
- Nomination for Quarterly Critic's Choice 1.2024, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik
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