Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1989
- Original language
- Slovenian
- Spoken languages
- Slovenian
- Countries
- Yugoslavia
- Cast
- Janez Hočevar,Roman Končar,Ivo Ban,Isabela Albrecht,Lidija Kozlovič,Vladimir Jurc,Vlado Novak,Branko Šturbej,Igor Jalušič,Branko Dobrnikand 5 more
- Director
- Jože Pogačnik
- Writer
- Žarko Petan
- Cinematography
- Janez Verovšek
- Music
- Bojan Adamič
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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