100 minutos
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.
Janez Hočevar
Oča
Lidija Kozlovič
Mati
Branko Šturbej
Branko
Igor Jalušič
Branko kot fant
Nataša Tič Ralijan
Janja
Ludvik Bagari
Kugla
Branko Dobrnik
Kugla kot fant
Aleš Valič
Tone
Vlado Novak
Rudi
Roman Končar
Ivan
Vladimir Jurc
Mudri človek
Anton Petje
Wagner
Isabela Albrecht
Frau Wagner
Brane Gruber
Provokator
Ivo Ban
Baumann
