Kavarna Astoria
The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation is marked by the period in which the film "Cafe Astoria" is set. With a gentle melancholy and a slight irony, the film relates to the lives of a middle-class family: the café owner and his wife and son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a bygone era; the social and national differences of prewar Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, nationally-minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophiles. 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 as seen from safe distance of 50 years.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Released
- 1989
Details
Release year: 1989
Storyline
The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation is marked by the period in which the film "Cafe Astoria" is set. With a gentle melancholy and a slight irony, the film relates to the lives of a middle-class family: the café owner and his wife and son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a bygone era; the social and national differences of prewar Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, nationally-minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophiles. 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 as seen from safe distance of 50 years.
Top credits
- Janez Hocevar — Father
- Lidija Kozlovic — Mother
- Branko Sturbej — Branko
- Igor Jalusic — Little Branko