Café Astoria ( 1989 )

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.

Top Cast

Janez Hočevar

Oča

Lidija Kozlovič

Mati

Branko Šturbej

Branko

Igor Jalušič

Branko kot fant

Nataša Tič Ralijan

Janja

Ludvik Bagari

Kugla

Branko Dobrnik

Kugla kot fant

Aleš Valič

Tone

Vlado Novak

Rudi

Roman Končar

Ivan

Vladimir Jurc

Mudri človek

Anton Petje

Wagner

Isabela Albrecht

Frau Wagner

Brane Gruber

Provokator

Ivo Ban

Baumann