Orpheus’ Song *** (2019, Sascha Weingarten, Julien Lickert, Henry Morales, Kristina Kostiv) – Classic Movie Review 12,838

Writer-director Tor Iben goes by the name of Feelbadmovies, but the cute 2019 German romantic adventure drama film Orpheus’ Song is a feel-good movie. Hooray! It’s a nice and quirky tale of two gym buddies.

Writer-director Tor Iben goes by the name of Feelbadmovies, but the cute 2019 German romantic adventure drama film Orpheus’ Song is a feel-good movie. Hooray!

Sascha Weingarten stars as Philipp, one of a pair of muscular Berlin gym buddy best friends, who wins a surprise holiday in Greece and insists on taking along his supposedly straight student friend Enis (Julien Lickert), who cheerily abandons his live-in girlfriend Kristina (Kristina Kostiv). Kristina is surprisingly patient and tolerant, obviously keen to hold on to Enis.

Arriving in Greece by plane on their trip, they leave their hotel, go trekking and get lost on an island. They spend the night together in a cave, drawn there by a strange beguiling local called Herkules (Henry Morales), drink his potion, and dream a mystical dream while they sleep together (cue the spiritually mysterious flute player). The next day, they wake up, find their money stolen, but abandon themselves to the sea and each other, and nothing between them is ever going be the same.

Orpheus’ Song is highly entertaining, nice and quirky, atmospheric, lots of fun, very romantic and quite sexy too, with two appealing, charming guys giving ingratiating performances. It’s got a great mood and super atmosphere, shot in Berlin and Corfu. What more do you want?

Genre: Adventure, romance.

Actors: Sascha Weingarten, Julien Lickert, Henry Morales, Kristina Kostiv.

Director: Tor Iben

Language: German, English.

Duration: 75 minutes.

It premiered in the United States on June 23, 2019 at the Out Here Now LGBT Film Festival.

Release date: 25 January 2020.

It is also known as Orfeos Traum.

Tor Iben credits himself at the end of the film as Feelbadmovies (Tor Iben).

Tor Iben was born in 1959 in Hagen, Germany, and is also known for The Visitor (2011), The Passenger (2014), The Year I Lost My Mind [Jahr des Tigers] (2017), Orpheus’ Song (2019), Where Are You Going, Habibi? (2015) and Das Phallometer (2013).

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