{"id":11849,"date":"2026-03-05T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/event\/cafe-elektric"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:14:34","slug":"cafe-elektric","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/program\/cafe-elektric","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Elektric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>01.07. 7:00 PM Concert Studio Radio Varna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presentation of \u201cCafe Elektric\u201d, an Austrian film from the silent era, accompanied by Gerhard Gruber \u2013 piano<\/p>\n<p><em>Under the Honorary Patronage of H.E. Mag. Andrea Iki\u0107-B\u00f6hm &#8211; Ambassador of Austria in Bulgaria<br \/>\nWith the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Sofia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo from the film: Filmarchiv Austria<br \/>\nPhoto of Gerhard Gruber: Robert Newald<\/p>\n<p>With Cafe Elektric, director Gustav Ucicky and writer  Jacques Bachrach provide us with yet another fine example of Weimar era film-making with its dissection of the interactions between  the \u2018haves\u2019 and \u2018have nots\u2019 of 1920s Vienna society.  For the poor and those who have fallen on hard times, Cafe Elektric is a desperate place, a place for the pimps and prostitutes to meet clients and for petty thieves and con-men  like Fredl  to seek out new victims.  But for the rich, like Erni and her father it is a place of thrills and excitement, as they go slumming and rub shoulders with the lower elements of society.  But in this moral tale, an individual\u2019s position in this social hierarchy is not necessarily fixed.  Hansi craves to escape from her circumstances and thanks to her association with Stoger looks to have achieved this by the film\u2019s conclusion.  Yet for Erni, her relationship with Ferdl looks to have dragged her down and, having been thrown out by her father, will she too end up working at Cafe Elektrik.<br \/>\nGerhard Gruber (1951) is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist for silent films, he has become the leading authority in Austria since 1988.He has performed for about 600 different films and composed the music for Caf\u00e9 Elektric.<\/p>\n<p>REGIE: Gustav Ucicky<br \/>\nJAHR: 1927<br \/>\nLAND: A<br \/>\nBUCH: Jacques Bachrach, nach den B\u00fchnenst\u00fccken Die Liebesb\u00f6rse und Frauen, denen man nachts begegnet von Felix<br \/>\nFischer<br \/>\nKAMERA: Hans Androschin<br \/>\nMIT: Igo Sym, Fritz Alberti, Marlene Dietrich, Willi Forst, Nina Vanna, Albert Kersten, Max St\u00f6ger<br \/>\nL\u00c4NGE: 77 Minuten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01.07. 7:00 PM Concert Studio Radio Varna Presentation of \u201cCafe Elektric\u201d, an Austrian film from the silent era, accompanied by Gerhard Gruber \u2013 piano Under the Honorary Patronage of H.E. Mag. Andrea Iki\u0107-B\u00f6hm &#8211; Ambassador of Austria in Bulgaria With the kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"eventcat":[48],"organizer":[],"event_tags":[80],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11852,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11849\/revisions\/11852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"eventcat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventcat?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"organizer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizer?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"event_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tags?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}