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  • Kurt Früh – Café Odeon (1959)

    Kurt Früh1951-1960DramaSwitzerland

    Café Odeon
    At the Coffeeshop at the Bellevue in Zurich, where artists, Poets and easy women hang out, Leni shows up. A girl from the country side. Her husband is in jail, and she is looking for her sister Anni. Since the latter is taking off to Milan with her “friend”, Leni lives in her apartment. She frequently meets the high school teacher Prof Kartmann. When he begins to withdraw from her because his wife begins to suspect an affair, Leni takes up a position in the local Café. She decides to return to her village in oder to wait there for her husband, who, in the meantime, has escaped from the penitentiary.

    A Swiss film in the style of the italian Neo-Realism.Read More »

  • Valérien Schmidely & Hans Trommer – Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1941)

    1941-1950ClassicsDramaHans TrommerSwitzerlandValérien Schmidely

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    While there is now at least a little bit of recognition for the early German and Austrian sound film, the same cannot be said for films from Switzerland. Although Switzerland never had a big film industry, especially not at that time, I assume there might be some real gems to discover, if this film here is any indication.Read More »

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