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When Father Was Away on Business is a film of genre Drama directed by Emir Kusturica released in USA on 11 october 1985 with Miki Manojlović
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Otac na sluzbenom putu
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Add to a movie listWhen Father Was Away on Business (Serbo-Croat: 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 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 in the Politika newspaper.
Synopsis
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 — U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. — 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.Actors
Miki Manojlović
(Mehmed "Meša" Malkoč)
Mirjana Karanović
(Senija 'Sena' Zolj, majka)
Mustafa Nadarević
(Zijah 'Zijo' Zulfikarpašić)
Mira Furlan
(Ankica Vidmar)
Davor Dujmović
(Mirza Malkoč, brat)
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