Café Astoria
Directed by Jože Pogačnik1989 1h 40mDrama
6.67.0
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.
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Café Astoria was released on March 10, 1989.
Café Astoria was directed by Jože Pogačnik.
Café Astoria has a runtime of 1h 40m.
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.
The key characters in Café Astoria are Oča (Janez Hočevar), Mati (Lidija Kozlovič), Branko (Branko Šturbej).
Café Astoria is a Drama film.
Café Astoria has an audience rating of 6.6 out of 10.