Café Elektric
- Marlene Dietrich: Erni Göttlinger
- Willi Forst: Ferdl
- Fritz Alberti: Kommerzialrat Göttlinger
- Anny Coty: Göttlingers friend
- Igo Sym: Max Stoeger
- Vera Salvotti: Paula
- Nina Vanna: Hansi
- Wilhelm Voelcker: Dr. Lehner
- Albert Kersten: Mr. Zerner '
Café Elektric is the title of a playing in Vienna movie drama from 1927. Marlene Dietrich played in this film her first starring role. Beside her, chose producer Sascha Kolowrat Krakowsky the equally young Willi Forst as a male lead. The premiere took place in Vienna on 25 November 1927.
The film, of which only an incomplete copy exists, was restored in 1978 by the Austrian Film Archive and aired in 1996 on TV. However, the end of the film is lost. A new version of the music took place in 2008 by the silent film pianist Gerhard Gruber.
Action
The Café Elektric is a meeting place for the demimonde of Vienna. Erni Göttlinger, the daughter of a building contractor, can be one with the dodgy Ferdl, their relationship fails. The second pair consists of the film once the contractors employed, but now unemployed engineer Max Stoeger and Hansi, he brings out the demimonde of the Café Elektric. After some inevitable misunderstandings he finds not only back to work, but there is also a happy ending with Hansi.
Background
The film was to show how easy it is to stray from the right path at this time, and like a neglected education can destroy a lifetime. However, it should also teach that it is a fault of sunken people possible to find out by pure love again out of this misery. However, the educational trends were not serious, but was the " sensation" of naked ladies legs and extended kissing scenes in the foreground.
The Vienna of the 1920s is not realistically portrayed in the film - 1927 was the year of the Palace of Justice fire. Nevertheless, the actor gave from believable characters, especially Willi Forst, began its big time until the talkies. Marlene Dietrich convinced with her feminine charms, she was at the mercy of pimps Ferdl. Your unique charisma she unfolded only in the sound films Josef von Sternberg.