
About the film

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Café Astoria
Release Date: May 25, 1989
Year | : | 1989 |
Slogan | : | «» |
Genres | : | Drama |
Production Companies | : | Viba Film |
Director | : | Jože Pogačnik |
Producers | : | |
Writers | : | Žarko Petan |
RunTime | : | 100 mins. |
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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