When Father Was Away on Business

When Father Was Away on Business

  • Director: Emir Kusturica
  • Countries of origin: Yugoslavia
  • Language: Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian
  • Release date: October 11, 1985
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Also known as: Otac na službenom putu
  • "Отац на службеном путу" is a 136-minute drama film directed by Emir Kusturica . The film starring Miki Manojlovic , Moreno D'E Bartolli, Mirjana Karanovic, etc., was released in West Germany on September 12, 1985.
    The film tells the story of the Marque family living in an atmosphere of authoritarian politics during the Tito era in Yugoslavia   .

    Details

    • Release date October 11, 1985
    • Filming locations Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Production companies Centar Film, Forum Sarajevo, Televizija Sarajevo

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $16,131

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,614

    Gross worldwide

    $34,751

    Movie reviews

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    • By Arne 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      sad accordion

      When I watched "The Piano of Steel" before, it was said to be a tribute to the film, the most obvious being the repeated accordion sound. But the former created a dream, and even if this dream was out of place in an era of change, it was still beautiful, and the hurt and betrayal in it seemed less important. The latter is more depressing, even if there is warmth, but the tone is dim and not warm.

      The male protagonist is not my heart, lustful and frivolous, although he also shows a...

    • By Sarah 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      Director, do you really think it's okay for men to be arrogant?

      It's okay to cheat, it's okay to lie to your lover, it's okay to lie to your wife, it's okay to be angry and beat your wife when your wife finds out that you're cheating, and it's okay to rape. As if being innocently imprisoned was his lover's sin, and his own evil was not innocent. The label of a man is such a good exoneration. The director of a centralized country may also think that this is okay, so he will continue to shape his decent appearance, so the story can still be so warm and...

    • By Christa 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      anti tito movie

      Anti-Tito movies, the question is what can such a rotten father oppose? What is the theme of the movie? And the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, as long as you are anti-communist, the key is that you have not been successful in anti-communism? Such a rotten person is no longer in a society governed by the Communist Party, and will only get worse in the free world. It gives the impression that Yugoslavia just after liberation is depressing, liberation is meaningless, and...

    • By Madisyn 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      Movies worth spending more than two hours watching

      The first time I heard about Kusturica's name was in Zhang Xiaozhou's comment on the "Southern Sports" that had been killed. I thought that the director who could be admired by people who seemed like a bully B should be no different. After that, I have been searching for the corresponding movie on the Internet, but I have never been able to find it. By chance, I downloaded "Dad on a Business Trip", and I haven't watched it since I came down. Today, I watched Kusturica's work for the first time...

    • By Pearl 2022-01-23 08:01:55

      Travel through the winter with warmth

      In my heart, I have always been the most eccentric Eastern European film. The Soviet Union’s big brother, the Czech second, the Polish third, Yugoslavia can be ranked fourth since Emir Kusturica came out of Emir Kusturica. (When there was Walter before, I might have ranked first.) This
       
      film is an early work by Emir Kusturica, director of "Underground/City Without Sky". The foreign language film was also nominated, and in the end, the Frenchman was generous and gave it to Palme d’Or....

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    • By Nick 2023-09-22 23:06:17

      In Yugoslavia's Cultural Revolution films, the Palme d'Or really preferred political films in those...

    • By Alessia 2023-09-16 16:26:13

      The Yugoslav films, which are more cautious in style, do not have the madness in the impression. Of course, brisk music is still occasionally interspersed. After the Nazis went to the communist people's life, of course, they came every step of the way, tearing and hurting, always dense metaphors, lost. Finding a way out in the middle, still in the tone of sadness, is it enough or there is a little dawn? It was still a mystery at the time, this film is still...

    • By Roselyn 2023-09-09 00:06:58

      Kusturica's least mad and warm film, but it also shows his wild imagination, peeping at the complexity of the system through a child's perspective, lightly dissolving the sense of...

    • By Catharine 2023-09-04 21:57:44

      The era when a mantra can be convicted is not groundless. Silence is the best way under dictatorship. The pervasive state secret police and the spectacled revolutionary masses make Mesa restricted his freedom if he is not...

    • By Clare 2023-08-18 15:42:41

      cruel joy full of...

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    The film uses a highly concise technique to attack the history of this period from the side through the growth of a six-year-old. The story observes the world from a child’s perspective, and uses the child’s innocent innocence to dilute the criticism of politics. Many of the touching scenes are reminiscent of their childhood from time to time, full of nostalgia. Of course, this is not a serious film. The cute children in the film and...
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