Orpheus in the Underworld

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Horst Bonnet

Status Released

Release Date 1974-02-07

Storyline

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.