Nika Owen is a trainee lawyer. A beginner in the world of law. And an initiator in life. Through the mysterious death of Inspector Novak, the unraveling of secrets is triggered, leading her down the path of learning what is really going on in society. Her career is at stake, her friendship, her love. —tvprofil
The stories narrated by the film bring together individuals all over the world, spanning over sixty years and thus symbolically covering the approximate period of a single human life. Each of the stories is based on true accounts and events, summed up from newspaper articles, statements, and media announcements. Through internal monologues the collage makes up a whole which transcends any individual story.
It's a Slovenian TV series that revolves around the intertwining lives of its characters, full of drama, romance, and unexpected twists. It follows the successes and failures of Gaber and Ištvan, who are celebrating their business ventures, while others like Penzl and Ana deal with personal and professional dilemmas. Gaber faces a kidnapping ordeal, Jaša is under surveillance by Lucija and Katja, and Pia learns a shocking secret about Mirza. The series keeps viewers hooked with its engaging plotlines and character dynamics.
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.
Old man Repovz recalls experiences of the WWII in an entertaining, comic way rather than tragic. A man breaks his arm to avoid being drafted; the other man shoots fire to scare enemy soldiers; love stories, as well as troubles with forced collectivization took place there. A partisan hero finds out that he lost her fiancee, but somewhat cheers up when his white horse comes back to him...
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