Café Astoria

Café Astoria — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 25, 1989
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Jože Pogačnik

Café Astoria — Cast

Janez Hočevar Oča

L

Lidija Kozlovič Mati Branko Šturbej Branko

I

Igor Jalušič Branko kot fant Nataša Tič Ralijan Janja Ludvik Bagari Kugla

B

Branko Dobrnik Kugla kot fant

A

Aleš Valič Tone