Release Date

25 May, 1989

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation mark the period in which the film Cafe Astoria is set. The story relates with a gentle melancholy and a slight irony the lives of a middle-class family: the cafe owner, his wife and their son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a by-gone era; the social and national differences of pre-war Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, and nationally minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophils. The first year after the war introduced the absurd characteristic cruel measures of the so-called revolutionary social transformations in which calamity and coincidence intervene, resulting in events of comic nature, of course, as seen from a safe distance of fifty years.

Original Title

Kavarna Astoria

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Actors

Janez Hočevar

Lidija Kozlovič

Branko Šturbej

Igor Jalušič

Nataša Tič Ralijan

Ludvik Bagari

Branko Dobrnik

Aleš Valič

Vlado Novak

Roman Končar

Vladimir Jurc

Anton Petje

Isabela Albrecht

Brane Gruber

Ivo Ban

Crew

Jože Pogačnik

Ratko Ristić

Milena Kumar

Niko Matul

Stanko Kostanjevec

Janez Verovšek

France Kveder

Žarko Petan

Bojan Adamič