Jimmy Orpheus

Jimmy Orpheus

1966 · 52 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

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.

Directed by Roland Klick · Written by Roland Klick

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