When Father Was Away on Business(Movie, 1985)

Name: When Father Was Away on Business
Genre: Drama
Released: 1985
Duration: T02:16:00
Rating: 3.7

Original title: "Otac na službenom putu" (Serbo-Croatian/SH)

2h 16min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 52 votes)

When Father Was Away on Business (Serbo-Croatian: Otac na službenom putu, Отац на службеном путу) is a 1985 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. The screenplay was written by the Bosnian dramatist Abdulah Sidran. Its subtitle is A Historical Love Film and it was produced by Centar Film and Forum, production companies based in Sarajevo. Set in post-World War II Yugoslavia during the Informbiro period, the film tells the story from the perspective of a boy, Malik, whose father Meša (Miki Manojlović) was sent to a labour camp. When Father Was Away on Business won the Palme d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ()

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Awards & Nominations for When Father Was Away on Business

Palme d'Or Fipresci Prize of The Festival De Cannes National Board of Review Award for Best International Film nominated for: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About When Father Was Away on Business

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.

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When Father Was Away On Business [Otac Na Sluzbenom Putu] (1985), Yugoslavia - Emir Kusturica(Clip, 1:28)

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Production country: Yugoslavia

Plays in: Serbia

Made by: Cannon Group, Sutjeska Film, Forum Sarajevo, Centar Film

Original language: Serbo-Croatian (SH)

Spoken languages: Serbo-Croatian (SH)

Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbo-Croatian (SH), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/11/1985 (World premiere: 01/15/1985)

Cast: Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Mira Furlan, Mustafa Nadarević, Davor Dujmović, Pavle Vuisić, Predrag Laković, Slobodan Aligrudić, Moreno D'E Bartolli, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Zoran Radmilović, Božidarka Frajt, Jasmin Geljo, Eva Ras

Director: Emir Kusturica

Screenwriter: Abdulah Sidran, Emir Kusturica

Director of Photography: Vilko Filač

Composer: Zoran Simjanović

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Otac na sluzbenom putu"

"Papà è in viaggio d'affari"

Keywords: communism, anti-communism, muslim, loss of loved one, difficult childhood, yugoslavia, 1950s, circumcision

Revenue: 41,184 USD

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