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when father was away for business (1985)

Original title: otac na službenom putu
128 min|
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Poster of movie when father was away for business
yugoslavia in the early fifties: tito moves away from stalin. among the victims of the regime, the womanizer mesa, interned in a labor camp for spite. life goes on, followed by the dreamy gaze of the very young malik, son of man, whose mother told him that 'dad is on a business trip'. but everything passes, the pain disappears, the suffering subsides: mesa goes back into freedom and starts again to get busy with her friends. malik, innocent, continues to dream.

Festivals and awards

Direction

Emir KusturicaEmir Kusturicaregista

Production and Screenplay

Abdulah Sidransceneggiatore
Mirza Pasicproduttore

Characters and Interpreters

Mesa
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Malik
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Malik, il bambino
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mehmed-mesa zolj, il padre
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Sena
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senija sena zolj, la madre
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Zijo
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zijah zijo zulfikarpašic, lo zio
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ankica vidmar
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fratello di Malik
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il nonno
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franjo
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ginnasta
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muzafer zulfikarpašic
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amico di Malik
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ostoja cekic
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dr. evgeni liakhov
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masha liakhov
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fahro zulfikarpašic
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mirza malkoc
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ilonka petrovic
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nataša petrovic
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serjoža petrovic
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brko pilot
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