When Father Was Away on Business
When Father Was Away on Business ★★★½ Otac na Sluzbenom Putu 1985 (R)
Set in 1950s Yugoslavia. A family must take care of itself when the father is sent to jail for philandering with a woman desired by a Communist Party offical. The moving story of the family's day-to-day survival is seen largely through the eyes of the father's six-year-old son, who believes dad is “away on business.” In Yugoslavian with English subtitles. 144m/C VHS, DVD . YU Moreno D'E Bartolli, Miki (Predrag) Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic; D: Emir Kusturica; W: Abdullah Sidran; C: Vilko Filac; M: Zoran Simjanovic. Cannes ‘85: Film.
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