Orpheus Rhapsody
Feature Film
Comedy/ Drama
Running Time: 74 min.
Format: HD
Original version: German
Subtitles: English
Cinema release: November 22nd, 2018
© OPAK, 2017
A young woman wants to shoot a film about „Orpheus in the Underworld“, but in the course of pre-production she falls into a well and dies. Instead of finding peace in the beyond, she gets stuck here on earth. The reason for this is a lively craftsman from Berlin whom she has met a few minutes before her death by accident. Like a ghost, she restlessly wanders through the meadows of Hades, and dreams about the city, people and love.
But her increasing liveliness entails danger. A stranger appears. He is carrying a mysterious suitcase. Is it Orpheus? What should have become a film, slowly turns into a peculiar parade of cheerful, lost characters, who are caught somewhere between fantasy and everyday life. In the end the city is all that remains. A new year begins...
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Concept
I wanted to return to the beginnings.
How were the first films actually made ?
That must have been so easy and so nice: Just to take a camera and together with a few friends start somewhere, anywhere, to tell a story.
Regulation:
- Format: digital/ black & white
- 1 protagonist (male)
- Location: Berlin + Brandenburg
- Season: Winter, max. 25 days for the shoot
- Budget. 10.000€
No title and no story.
I reasoned that the less I knew the better I would be able to think and work in the moment itself. As a whole it was intended as an experiment, in the sense of: Inventing the story as we felt. Then whilst cutting the film parallel, thinking about how it could continue.
Originally „Orpheus“ was just a word. The experiment needed a name. „Orpheus“ was neither a character nor a story line, just a rough direction.
Many of the characters resisted the general direction of „Orpheus“ for a long time. For them it was nicer and considerably more amusing quite somewhere else. Not until things where drawing to a close, did „Orpheus“ become clearly recognizable. His most important features: Death, love and music...
Cast
Liam Maria Gremm
Svetlana Wall
Dirk Sikorski
Peter Koge
Matthias Theves
Chris Schulenberger
Detlef Brand
Tobias Hübsch
Carolin Gremm
S.N.R. Wolfe
Klaus Arnold
Dominik Franz
Hong Chang Kim
Katharina Mihm
Crew
Cinematography, Lighting: Jan Klein
Sound: Ben Kalisch
Editing: Stanislaw Schimanski
Sound design: Nadine Radloff
Music/ mixing: Jakob Rohr
With a composition by the young monk Il-Wall
Underwater photos: Björn Dostewitz
Title-Design and Graphics: Eric Tiedt
Set-Assistant and Dramatic Advisor: Adrian Mihm
Production Management: Jeanne Ramin
Production: Katharina Mihm and Hong Chang Kim
Concept/ Director: Katharina Mihm
Filmed in Berlin and Brandenburg, December 2014 - March 2015
Solely financed with own resources
© OPAK, 2017