Overview
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.
Cast
- Janez Hočevar as Oča
- Lidija Kozlovič as Mati
- Branko Šturbej as Branko
- Igor Jalušič as Branko kot fant
- Nataša Tič Ralijan as Janja
- Ludvik Bagari as Kugla
- Branko Dobrnik as Kugla kot fant
- Aleš Valič as Tone
- Vlado Novak as Rudi
- Roman Končar as Ivan