Jimmy Orpheus

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West Germany, 1966, 52 min

Directed by:

Roland Klick

Screenplay:

Roland Klick

Cinematography:

Robert van Ackeren

Composer:

Roland Klick
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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. (Berlinale)

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