A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.
Acting
Margrit Winter's exhaustion feels lived-in, not performed.
Production
Real Café Odeon location captures 1959 Zurich dying bohemia.
Director
Kurt Früh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Café Odeon hosted Lenin, Joyce, and Benjamin; Früh films it as a faded monument to exile intellectualism now serving coffee to ghosts.
Released the same year as the French New Wave exploded, this Swiss 'milieustudie' chose social realism over stylistic revolution — and history largely forgot it.
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