Orpheus in der Unterwelt
Orpheus in the Underworld
© DEFA-Stiftung / Herbert Kroiss
Orpheus in der Unterwelt | Orpheus in the Underworld by Horst Bonnet
DDR 1973, Retrospective
© DEFA-Stiftung / Herbert Kroiss
The philandering Orpheus is forced to go to the rescue of his adulterous wife Eurydice who has been spirited away to Hades. This opulent film version of Jacques Offenbach’s suggestive operetta is full of satirical jabs at life in East Germany.