Emir Kusturica-Otac na sluzbenom putu ('When Father Was Away on Business') (1985)

Posted By : FNB47 | Date : 05 Mar 2007 01:09:00 | Comments : 12 |

In the tumultuous1950's, as Yugoslavia resists the pressure of Stalinism, a young boy narrates the story of his family's troubled world. Mesha (Miki Manojlovic), a minor party official in Yugoslavia has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with a voluptuous communist party official. The drama unfolds through the eyes of Mesha's six-year-old naive son, Malik who thinks Papa is away on business. (-DVD cover)

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison. The story is told from the perspective of Malik, his young son who believes the mother's story about father being "away on business". (http://imdb.com/title/tt0089748/plotsummary)

When Father was away on Business (1985)**** This great feature is the combination of a genuine story, emotionally charged, authentic expression, supreme inner movie energy and director's ability (mastery) to transmit all of this into the perfectly balanced, aesthetically elegant, touching and effective form.

Miki Manojlovic is great as Mesa; he reminds me of Raimu occasionally. The wedding scene, when he effects a reconciliation with Zijo, is very poignant. Slobodan Aligrudic plays Cekic, the party boss who oversees Mesa's rehabilitation and finally sends him home to Sarajevo: he is affable (always wants to share a drink, play chess and so on) but the brutality is always close to the surface. Little Malik, the boy who tries to make sense of what the adults are doing, communicates a lot of joy and sorrow.

Warning : this movie is highly emotional. ... Yet, it is often very funny as well. Note that, unlike many European movies, it ends rather well and on a hopeful note. If you like tragi-comical movies ... no doubt you will love this too.

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Posted By: kharmok Date: 05 Mar 2007 11:33:11

A wonderfull film, I just happen to watch it last week, for the second time...I agree with the comments above, it's a very emotional and deep film, tough subjects are told in a very delicate way, even the horrible tragedies that were taboo during communism - concentration camp-like prison "Goli Otok" where "political" prisoners really did commit suicide, was mentioned. Many of them were innocent, guilty only of their freedom of thought, or, many communists couldn't suddenly stop loving Stalin who was glorified as "God" before Tito broke with Soviet Union in 1948. After that moment Stalin became an "enemy" overnight. It is also true that some people were sent to prison just because their communist neighbour wanted to take their house, or even their wife, by force. Tough times indeed, told in the best possible way, from the pure heart of the little boy... The film culminates with the wedding celebration, when, with a help of a lot of brandy (rakija) masks fall, and the truth comes out...thanks for posting this film!

here's the cover from the Serbian DVD edition (164Kb):
http://rapidshare.com/files/19483169/Otac_na_Sluzbenom_putu_-_DVD_cover.jpg

Posted By: edu1972a Date: 05 Mar 2007 16:08:31

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Posted By: MuddyF Date: 06 Mar 2007 09:20:33

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Posted By: harrygee Date: 06 Mar 2007 16:23:55

Emir Kusturica is yet another great favourite of mine so thank you very much FNB.47

Posted By: suki2000 Date: 06 Mar 2007 19:25:31

Thanks a lot!

Posted By: aldicopola Date: 11 Mar 2007 20:07:36

Great Movie! One of my all time favorites. Thanks FNB.47. Do you by any chance happen to have "Time of the Gypsies" ?

Posted By: mortzy Date: 11 Mar 2007 21:38:23

anybody has English subtitle. i couldn't find it in archive, and i ve deleted the archives after i ve extracted the movie :(
thanks

Posted By: FNB47 Date: 12 Mar 2007 12:03:27

mortzy,
English and Turkish subtitles for this film:
http://rapidshare.com/files/20636794/EKust-FAway.rar.html

good luck :)

Posted By: FNB47 Date: 12 Mar 2007 12:04:45

aldicopola, yes I have... and I will... :)

Posted By: mortzy Date: 16 Mar 2007 15:19:11

millions thanks FNB.47

Posted By: carbak Date: 24 Mar 2009 20:13:48

Hi, Thanks for your marvelous efforts. Can you please upload the first and the last parts ( Part1&Part15) again. Rapidshare is giving the 'The file could not be found. Please check the download link.' message. Thanks from now on.

Posted By: Jason_Bourne Date: 03 Apr 2010 01:37:46

Can anyone please re-upload Part1 and Part15?

Thanks in advance.

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