Café Astoria
6.7
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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Janez Hočevar
Oča
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Lidija Kozlovič
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Žarko Petan
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Jože Pogačnik
Branko Šturbej
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Ivan
Ratko Ristić
Igor Jalušič
Branko kot fant
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Bojan Adamič
Branko Sturbej
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Nataša Tič Ralijan
Janja
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Jože Pogačnik Director · Žarko Petan Writer Bojan Adamič Composer
First release March 10, 1989 · Produced in Serbia · Original title Kavarna Astoria
Production
Viba film
Production · Distribution
Serbia
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Languages
Original title
Kavarna Astoria
Original language
Slovenian
Spoken on screen
Slovenian
Release dates
Serbia · March 10, 1989
Slovenia · May 25, 1989
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No release date listed for United States.
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