Orpheus in the Underworld(1974)

movie - first aired/released 1974-02-07 - 88 min - audience 7.5

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music

Directed by Horst Bonnet

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.