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.

Cafe.Odeon.1958.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 28mn
Size:	1.21 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	716x572 ~> 762x572
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 771 Kbps
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gsw 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/BF9EB9EDD1CA92B/Cafe.Odeon.1958.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Swiss German
Subtitles:English,German

The post Kurt Früh – Café Odeon (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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.

The only film by director Valerien Schmidely (imdb also names Hans Trommer as co-director, but the credits do not), “Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe” is an adaption of the novella of the same name by Gottfried Keller. Set in the 19th century, two peasants are fighting over a plot of land that doesn’t even belong to them, and in the course of events they ruin their families. However, Sali and Vreneli, their children, are in love with each other, and as the title indicates, this love cannot have a happy future…

The film has an earthy, almost archaic character, which however is far, far removed from the ‘blood and soil’-ideology of some German films of the time. Still, the landscape photography is ravishing, we have a very touching performance by Margrit Winter as Vreneli and fine acting all around, a well-written script, and a surprisingly assured direction. All these elements together make for an incredibly beautiful film with an almost transcendent ending.

0.98GB | 1h 13mn | 544×416 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/6AE3C6C3628BD3C/Romeo_und_Julia_auf_dem_Dorfe_(Valerien_Schmidely_1941).avi

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Valérien Schmidely & Hans Trommer – Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1941) first appeared on Cinema of the World.