Café Paradis (1950) User Reviews

realistic portrait of heavy boozers

[happytrigger-64-390517 · 8/10 · 2 November 2019]

"Café Paradis" is a danish strong drama about heavy drinkers who cannot live one day without drinking an important mass of alcohool, beer and aquavit. The beginning is amazing, an executive fires an employee because of his drinking, and during the interview, he answers on phone to an invitation to a boozing party that has already begun. The movie follows the two drinkers, the rich and the poor, and there are no concessions on that alcoholic picture. Ib Schonberg is perfectly realist as the very fat executive who drinks in any occasion and loses his health becoming impotent.

Dark movie of the best kind...

[Gyldmark · 10/10 · 6 January 1999]

It's one of Denmark's proudest productions ever. It stars Ib Schønberg as the executive, who fires his worker (Poul Reichhardt). The worker fights to stay away from alcholism, with problems at home, while the executive slowly gets more and more addicted to alcoholism himself, with problems at every level. Very strong performances, especially by Ib Schønberg, and a very dark, but suitable score by Sven Gyldmark.

Brilliant movie about how alcohol can effect your life

[ruha · 10/10 · 4 March 1999]

With Ib Schønberg and Poul Reichardt in their greatest roles ever, this is a movie that touches your very soul. About a succesful businessman whose abuse of alcohol turns him into a poor man without family and friends.