Café Astoria 1989
Café Astoria
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.
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.
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Release Date:
May 25, 1989
Run Time:
1hr 40`
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Original Language:
Slovenian
Status:
Released
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Cast & Crew of
Café Astoria - Café Astoria
Directors & Credit Writers
... Director
Cast
... Oča
... Mati
... Branko
IJ
Igor Jalušič... Branko kot fant
... Janja
... Kugla
... Kugla kot fant
AV
Aleš Valič... Tone
... Rudi
RK
Roman Končar... Ivan
... Mudri človek
AP
Anton Petje... Wagner
... Frau Wagner
... Provokator
... Baumann