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Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Yugoslavia |
1985 |
136 min.
In the tumultuous 1950s, as Yugoslavia resists the pressures of Stalinism, a young boy narrates the story of his family's troubled world. Mesha, a minor party official in Yugoslavia, has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with a voluptuous communist party official. The drama unfolds through the eyes of Mesha's six-year-old naive son, Malik, who thinks Papa is away on business.
| Country | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1985 |
| Duration | 136 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian |
| Subtitle | Czech |
| Directed by | Emir Kusturica |
| Screenplay | Abdulah Sidran |
| Director of Photography | Vilko Filač |
| Music | Andrija Zafranović |
| Edited by | Andrija Zafranović |
| Contact | Forum Sarajevo |
Biography
Serbian screenwriter, director and actor. His first film was the feature Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Sjecas li se Dolly Bell?, 1981). Of his works we'll mention When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na sluzbenom putu, 1985), Underground (1995) and Life Is a Miracle (Zivot je cudo, 2004).