When Father Was Away on Business

Year: 1985

Runtime: 136 mins

Language: Serbo-Croatian

Director: Emir Kusturica

Drama

After Tito’s split with Stalin in 1948, Yugoslavia entered a confusing and perilous era for staunch communists. When Mesha makes an off‑hand comment about a newspaper cartoon, he is swept up with many others who are arrested. His family must endure the hardship and wait for his eventual release from prison.

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