Klaus Schichan

ヴィム・ヴェンダース、31歳の時に撮った長編第7作。白血病で死の不安に生きているハンブルグの額縁職人ヨナタン。彼を殺人にはめ込み、完全犯罪を進めながら危険な友情にはまりこんでいくトム・リプレー。死んだ筈の画家の贋作を書いているポガッシュ。物語は、サスペンスに富む発端の画の競売シーンから、この3人の絡んだストーリーを小気味よいテンポで進めていく。

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.

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.