Café Astoria

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 middleclass family the cafe owner his wife and their 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 and nationally minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophils The first year after the war introduced the absurd characteristic cruel measures of the socalled 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