When Father Was Away on Business

When Father Was Away on Business

Directed by	Emir Kusturica
Produced by	Mirza Pašić
Written by	Abdulah Sidran
Starring	Moreno De Bartoli Miki Manojlović Mirjana Karanović Mustafa Nadarević Mira Furlan Davor Dujmović Predrag Laković Pavle Vujisić
Music by	Zoran Simjanović
Cinematography	Vilko Filač
Edited by	Andrija Zafranović
Production company	Centar Film Forum Sarajevo
Distributed by	Scotia International Filmverleih (1985) (West Germany) Cannon Film Distributors (USA) (subtitled) Hollydan Works (2007-2008) (Non-US) Koch Lorber Films (2005) (USA)
Release dates	12 September 1985 (1985-09-12) (West Germany)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian
Box office	$25,053 (West Germany only) $16,131 (USA only)

When Father Was Away on Business (Serbo-Croatian: Otac na službenom putu/Отац на службеном путу) is a 1985 Yugoslav film by 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 through the eyes of the young boy Malik. His father, communist functionary Meša (played by Miki Manojlović), has been sent to a labour camp by his own brother-in-law (his wife Sena's brother) Zijo who's an even higher positioned Communist functionary for making a remark about a political cartoon regarding the Tito–Stalin Split in the Politika newspaper.

Plot

The movie opens in June 1950 with a local neighbourhood drunk Čika Franjo serenading field workers. He sings Mexican songs (as it turns out, he does so out of self-preservation, figuring it's safer for him to steer clear of songs originating from either of the two dominant global powers — United States and Soviet Union — in the current climate of Cold War and Yugoslavia's paranoid repressive internal apparatus looking to identify and remove enemies of the state in the wake of the Tito–Stalin Split) while local children, including Malik, climb trees and play around. The story is from the perspective of the boy, Malik, whose mother Sena tells him that his father is on a business trip. Malik is a chronic sleepwalker.

After a while, Meša's wife and children rejoin him in Zvornik. Malik meets Maša, the daughter of a Russian doctor. He falls in love with her, but last sees her when the ambulance takes her away.

At the wedding of his maternal uncle Fahro, Malik witnesses his father's affair with a woman pilot. She later tries to commit suicide by using a toilet's flush cord. Sena reconciles with her brother Zijah, who's been diagnosed with diabetes.

Cast

Moreno de Bartoli as Malik Malkoč
Miki Manojlović as Mehmed "Meša" Malkoč
Mirjana Karanović as Senija "Sena" Malkoč (née Zulfikarpašić)
Mira Furlan as Ankica Vidmar
Mustafa Nadarević as Zijah "Zijo" Zulfikarpašić
Predrag Laković as Franjo
Pavle Vujisić as Muzafer Zulfikarpašić
Slobodan Aligrudić as Ostoja Cekić
Aleksandar Dorčev as Dr. Evgeni Liakhov
Silvija Puharić as Masha Liakhov
Emir Hadžihafizbegović as Fahro Zulfikarpašić
Davor Dujmović as Mirza Malkoč
Eva Ras as Ilonka Petrović
Jelena Čović as Nataša Petrović
Amer Kapetanović as Serjoža Petrović
Zoran Radmilović as Brko Pilot
Tomislav Gelić as Hamdo Malkoč, barber
Zaim Muzaferija as Predsjednik

Awards

1985 Cannes Film Festival: the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) and the FIPRESCI Prize,^[1]
Nominated for the 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film^[2]
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures^[3]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: When Father Was Away on Business". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
↑ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
↑ "1985 Award Winners". National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.

External links

Films by Emir Kusturica

Feature films	Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) When Father Was Away on Business (1985) Time of the Gypsies (1988) Arizona Dream (1993) Underground (1995) Black Cat, White Cat (1998) Life Is a Miracle (2004) Promise Me This (2007) Words with Gods (2014) On the Milky Road (2016)

Documentaries	Super 8 Stories (2001) Maradona by Kusturica (2008)

Palme d'Or winning films

Union Pacific (1939)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1946)
The Red Meadows (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
María Candelaria (1946)
Neecha Nagar (1946)
The Turning Point (1946)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
The Last Chance (1946)
Men Without Wings (1946)
Rome, Open City (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Miss Julie (1951)
Miracle in Milan (1951)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Long Absence (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Blowup (1967)
if.... (1969)
MASH (1970)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Hireling (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Padre Padrone (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Man of Iron (1981)
Missing (1982)
Yol (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Eel (1997)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The Child (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
The Class (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Amour (2012)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Dheepan (2015)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival

As Yugoslav Film Awards (1957–90)	Priests Ćira and Spira (1957) H-8 (1958) Train Without a Timetable (1959) The Ninth Circle (1960) Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud & The First Fires (1961) Kozara (1962) Face to Face (1963) Official Position (1964) Prometheus of the Island & Three (1965) Monday or Tuesday (1966) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) When I Am Dead and Gone (1968) Downstream from the Sun (1969) Handcuffs (1970) Red Wheat (1971) The Master and Margaret (1972) The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) The Republic of Užice (1974) The House (1975) Idealist (1976) Don't Lean Out the Window (1977) Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978) Trophy (1979) Petria's Wreath (1980) The Fall of Italy (1981) Body Scent (1983) Balkan Spy (1984) When Father Was Away on Business (1985) Happy New Year '49 (1986) Reflections (1987) My Uncle's Legacy (1988) The Meeting Point (1989) Silent Gunpowder (1990)

As Croatian Film Awards (1992–present)	Story from Croatia (1992) Countess Dora (1993) Washed Out (1995) How the War Started on My Island (1996) Mondo Bobo (1997) When the Dead Start Singing (1998) Madonna (1999) Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000) Slow Surrender (2001) Fine Dead Girls (2002) Here (2003) Long Dark Night (2004) What Iva Recorded (2005) All for Free (2006) The Living and the Dead (2007) No One's Son (2008) Metastases (2009) Just Between Us (2010) Kotlovina (2011) A Letter to My Father (2012) A Stranger (2013) Number 55 (2014) The High Sun (2015) On the Other Side (2016)

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