Café Astoria (1989) — drama film. Directed by Jože Pogačnik. Starring Janez Hočevar, Lidija Kozlovič, Branko Šturbej, Igor Jalušič. This page maps 10 characters and 9 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A gentle, ironic exploration of a middle-class family's resilience through WWII and post-war revolutionary transformations in Maribor.
Drama · 7/10 · 100 min · 1989
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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