Watch Café Astoria (1989) Online

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. Read More

Watch Café Astoria online. Featuring Janez Hočevar and Lidija Kozlovič, Café Astoria is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.3. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in Yugoslavia and was released on 1989. Café Astoria was directed by Jože Pogačnik. Read Less