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Café Astoria 1989

Name: Café Astoria
Genre: Drama
Released: 25 May 1989
Rating: 6.20
Cast: Janez Hočevar, Lidija Kozlovič, Branko &Scaron;turbej, Igor Jalu&scaron;ič, Nata&scaron;a Tič Ralijan

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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.