Jimmy Orpheus
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Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © Filmgalerie 451
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Klaus Schichan
Jimmy Orpheus by Roland Klick
BRD 1966, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © Filmgalerie 451
Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a prostitute, for whom he risks life and limb while walking around night-time Hamburg … A love story that is as poetic as it is realistic, with Roland Klick trying out various extravagant editing and camera techniques, such as jump cuts and time-lapse shots, as well as his idea of action movies.