Café Astoria (1989)
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.
Director: Jože Pogačnik
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Janez Hočevar as Oča |
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Lidija Kozlovič as Mati |
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Branko Šturbej as Branko |
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Igor Jalušič as Branko kot fant |
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Nataša Tič Ralijan as Janja |
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Ludvik Bagari as Kugla |
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Branko Dobrnik as Kugla kot fant |
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Aleš Valič as Tone |
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Vlado Novak as Rudi |
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Roman Končar as Ivan |
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Vladimir Jurc as Mudri človek |
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Anton Petje as Wagner |
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Isabela Albrecht as Frau Wagner |
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Brane Gruber as Provokator |
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Ivo Ban as Baumann |
| Directing | Jože Pogačnik | Director |
| Art | Ratko Ristić | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Milena Kumar | Costume Design |
| Art | Niko Matul | Production Design |
| Editing | Stanko Kostanjevec | Editor |
| Camera | Janez Verovšek | Director of Photography |
| Art | France Kveder | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Žarko Petan | Writer |
| Sound | Bojan Adamič | Original Music Composer |
