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  When Father Was Away on Business - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), 1985 is a film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica.
Set in post-World War II Bosnia, during the Informbiro period, the film is a story of a young boy whose father (played by Predrag Miki Manojlović) has been suspected of working for Cominform and sent to a labor camp for a careless remark about a political newspaper cartoon.
The story is from the perspective of the boy, Malik, who is led to believe that his father is on a business trip.
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 Coolcitiesusa - Dallas/Fort Worth - Business & Services - Hope Lancarte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
In business since 1935, Joe T’s has grown from a small family business that was always busy to a large family business that is, not surprisingly, always busy.
My father was very good at giving us a lot of advice and life lessons that would go along with the business.” Hope recalls “You would think he was a teacher.
In 1953 Hope’s father passed away, leaving the business in the hands of his wife and family.
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 Emir Kusturica
It is a cursory comment that would soon come to haunt him as Ankika mentions the casual remark to Mesa's brother-in-law, a party official named Zijo (Mustafa Nadarevic) who soon becomes her romantic suitor.
However, when Mesa is reassigned to a work camp at a hydroelectric power plant in Zvornik, Malik's devoted mother Sena (Mirjana Karanovic) is forced to make the difficult decision to uproot the family from Sarajevo in order to reunite with their father during his indefinite, mandated transitional period of 'resocialization'.
In gratitude, Ahmed agrees to take Danira to a hospital in Ljubljana during an upcoming 'business' trip to Italy with his brothers, and to pay for all her incurred medical expenses.
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 When father was away on business. - book reviews National Review - Find Articles
In Father, Mesa, a minor government functionary who travels and womanizes a lot, refuses to divorce his wife, Sena, as the gym teacher Ankica, his current mistress, would have him do.
Seven-year-old Malik, the film's real hero, and his movie-buff brother, Mirza, circa 12, are told by Sena that their father is on a business trip.
Sena is a decent, earnest, hardworking seamstress, now toiling twice as hard to keep her headless family going while Father, as it turns out, is doing two years of forced labor at the Lipnica coal mine.
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 Father's Day
My father's father was a school teacher in the small village they lived in.
That was something my grandfather was immensely prod of, and he insisted that his two sons, (the other became a lawyer) put their titles on the wreaths at his grave.
My father met my Swedish mother in romantic Heidelberg, where they both studied medicine, and when he'd finished his studies he married her in Sweden and stayed in this northern country where I was born a year later.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Language of Business
But Kallapur, a fifth-year doctoral candidate at the Business School, is out to make a name for the field.
A graduate of the University of Bombay's business school, Kallapur is one of only a handful of instructors to lead a Harvard economics course before earning a doctoral degree.
Kallapur received a masters in business administration at the University of Bombay.
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 Review - When Father Was Away on Business
When Father Was Away on Business is set in the period of 1950-52, mostly in Sarajevo during a time of desperate confusion.
This internationally acclaimed Yugoslav feature shows what it was like growing up during the reign of Tito who had made Yugoslavia something of an outlaw state among the Communist nations.
Malik's father, Mesha criticizes a cartoon in the party newspaper, and sent to labor camp.
www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2716   (208 words)

  
 Filmmaker Magazine | Web Articles: WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS
Overwhelmed and exhausted their mother sends her sons away to a koranic school from which the boys attempt to escape and are consequently treated more harshly.
And on the radio, there are frequently communications from families looking for a father or a husband who has left home and disappeared.
And also, they both know kids who have lost a father, so it was not difficult for them to interpret the script.
www.filmmakermagazine.com /archives/online_features/father_away.php   (1803 words)

  
 SACD Reviews, DVD Reviews, CD Reviews - Audiophile Audition
Emir Kusturica’s film When Father Was Away on Business opens with a scene in the Yugoslavia in 1950 during a turbulent time for the country as it resists the pressures of Stalinism.
He keeps loving his father, despite the man’s notable flaws, and reluctantly obeying the wishes of his parents.
For those film buffs who enjoy the unusual story telling technique of a clever six year old naively discovering the world around him, When Father is Away on Business is worth seeing.
www.audaud.com /article_print.php?ArticleID=373   (432 words)

  
 When Father Was Away on Business VHS prices at Smarter.com
It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official.
In reality, the child's father has gone to prison for romancing the lover of a high-ranking party member.
The difficulties and tumult experienced by this fatherless family struggling to survive on their own is a parable for and mirror of the tensions between the Soviet Union and the emerging Yugoslavian government, struggling for independence.
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 Worcester Telegram & Gazette News
Their father, traveling on business, was to be questioned when he returned, police said.
The two girls told police they ate whenever their father was home, which wasn’t a lot.
With the father gone this week and next, “they were really hoping they could eat this weekend,” Bastian said.
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 Clarence Walton, PhD., The Father of Business Ethics Passes Away
Walton, regarded by many as the “Father of Business Ethics”, was the first holder of the Charles Lamont Post Chair in Ethics and the Professions at The American College — the first endowed chair of it’s kind in the country devoted exclusively to the study of business ethics.
Born in 1915, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Walton was the son of the superintendent of the Syracuse railroad yard for the Lackawana Railroad.
He was responsible for making business ethics an integral part of executive training courses at General Electric, IBM, U.S. Steel, Prudential, Alcoa, USX and other major corporations.
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 DVD Releases: April 27, 2005
At wits end, as well, over the recent dissolution of his marriage and denial of a government subsidy for a business concept, Bicke/Byck began a futile search for justice.
It ultimately would take this deeply disturbed man to an airport, where he attempted to hijack an airplane and fly it into the White House (whose then-occupant had been described to him as the greatest salesman of all time).
As, perhaps, the last person in the English-speaking world to be swept away by the hysteria and hype surrounding The Da Vinci Code, I came to the newly released DVD, Exploring the Da Vinci Code with some trepidation.
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 Abouna (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Plot Summary: The lives of two brothers, who live in N'djamena, are upended when they awake one Saturday morning to find that their father has left the family...
On the surface a simple, affecting tale of two sons' search for their absent father, Abouna is actually a film of some sophistication.
There seems to be a metaphor in the idea of the absent father, perhaps relating to a country that the director feels has lost its way after many years of colonialism and war.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0307913   (332 words)

  
 When Father Was Away on Business
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 Hard Goodbyes: My Father — Infoplease.com
The pair loves to recite the stories of Jules Verne, the man who had envisioned the "shot to the moon" a century earlier.
They spin tales of the imagination that take them far away from their home in Athens -- to their imagined refuges on islands and in space.
But his father is often away on business trips, and one day, he doesn't come back.
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 Emir Kusturica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His second feature film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned a Palme d'Or at Cannes, five Yugoslavian Oscar equivalents, and was nominated for an American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
and When Father Was Away on Business were made in collaboration with Abdulah Sidran.
When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), 1985
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 When Father Was Away On Business Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
When Father Was Away On Business Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
DVD > When Father Was Away On Business: Standard Release DVD > Features
The film details the tribulations of a fatherless family struggling to cope with the financial deprivations of Communism.
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 The Blog | Dr. Peter Rost: Father's Day | The Huffington Post
So now you fight the "powers that be" at Phizer, (also "authority figures"), in your continual battle with your father, never resolved.
I lost my father a couple of years ago and to the world his death was barely a blip on the radar, but he lived through the same world events and also had some stories to tell.
Most days now, being caught up in day to day life, kids, work, etc. I don't think about him too much, but on Father's Day I do miss him terribly and wish he were still here so I could tell him again how much I love him.
www.huffingtonpost.com /dr-peter-rost/fathers-day_b_23263.html   (1622 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | 'Hard Goodbyes: My Father'
BESIDE THE JOY that mankind felt at the first landing on the moon, 35 years ago this summer, there was a certain feeling of unease.
Young Elias used to hoard the chocolate bars his father brought him as a present during his two or three days the father would be home; we see that he has about 40 of them stashed in a footlocker under his bed.
He pretends his father is only away on business and writes letters to the family in his dad's name.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.05.04/hardgoodbyes-0419.html   (618 words)

  
 Father (1966)
Hungarian post-WWII coming-of-age drama concerning a boy's shift from living in the past, idealizing the memory of his dead father, to moving on to developing mature, vital relationships.
Attempts to lift shroud on Hungary's role in WWII massacres.
Yugoslavian comedy/drama concerns son whose father goes to labor camp.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=4216   (106 words)

  
 When Father Was Away on Business (1985) - FilmAffinity
When Father Was Away on Business (1985) - FilmAffinity
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".
www.filmaffinity.com /en/film843652.html   (233 words)

  
 Woods' Father Passes Away At 74 - Golf - WRAL.com | WRAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Cypress, CA -- (Sports Network) - Earl Woods, father of world No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods, passed away early Wednesday at his home.
"I'm very saddened to share the news of my father's passing at home early this morning," said Tiger Woods on his Web site.
Click here for the IBS privacy policy, terms of use.
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 VH1.com : Movies : When Father Was Away on Business : Plot
VH1.com : Movies : When Father Was Away on Business : Plot
The Yugoslavian When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na Sluzbenoh Putu) takes place in the early 1950s.
Director Emir Kusturica won the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm award for his work on When Father Was Away on Business.
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 Otac na sluzbenom putu ~ (When Father Was Away On Business)(Papa est en voyage d'affaires)
Otac na sluzbenom putu ~ (When Father Was Away On Business)(Papa est en voyage d'affaires)
This sets in motion the events, beginning with "Mesa's" arrest, that drive the plot of the film.
The story is told from the perspective of his young son "Malik," who is convinced that his father is simply away on business, even though the adults are all well aware of the truth.
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 Balkans Business News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
My father, Arthur Wicks, who has died aged 91,...
face the prospect of closure of their business for up to one year.
years he has been in the automotive business, and during that time, he studied real...
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 Amazon.com: When Father Was Away On Business: DVD: Moreno D'E Bartolli,Miki Manojlovic,Mirjana Karanovic,Mustafa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Amazon.com: When Father Was Away On Business: DVD: Moreno D'E Bartolli,Miki Manojlovic,Mirjana Karanovic,Mustafa Nadarevic,Mira Furlan,Predrag Lakovic,Pavle Vujisic,Slobodan Aligrudic,Eva Ras,Aco Djorcev,Aleksandar Dorcev,Emir Hadzihafisbegovic,Zoran Radmilovic,Jelena Covic,Tomislav Gelic,Davor Dujmovic,Amer Kapetanovic,Silvija Puharic,Zaim Muzaferija,Bozidarka Frajt,Emir Kusturica
Mesha (Miki Manojlovic), a minor party official in Yugoslavia has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous communist party official.
The drama unfolds through the eyes of Mesha’s six year-old naïve son, Malik, who thinks Papa is away on business.
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 AV #67153 - Digital Video Disc - When Father Was Away on Business [ Otac na Sluzbenom Putu ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
AV #67153 - Digital Video Disc - When Father Was Away on Business [ Otac na Sluzbenom Putu ]
When Father Was Away on Business [ Otac na Sluzbenom Putu ]
Six-year-old Malik’s father is sent to a labor camp for an indiscretion with a Communist Pary official’s enamorata at the beginning of this warm human comedy, set in 1950s Sarejevo.
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 Father - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
With no intention of staying out of trouble, Black is drawn into Tokyo's underground racing scene, where he must master the art of drifting, a dangerous driving technique that allows a car to take hairpin turns with a sideways slide.
Young Tako's (Dani Erdelyi) father was killed near the end of World War II, and Tako has made a hero of his father in his fantasies.
Honor Thy Father And Mother: The True Story Of The...
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 Amazon.com: When Father Was Away on Business: Video: Moreno D'E Bartolli,Miki Manojlovic,Mirjana Karanovic,Mustafa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Amazon.com: When Father Was Away on Business: Video: Moreno D'E Bartolli,Miki Manojlovic,Mirjana Karanovic,Mustafa Nadarevic,Mira Furlan,Predrag Lakovic,Pavle Vujisic,Slobodan Aligrudic,Eva Ras,Aco Djorcev,Aleksandar Dorcev,Emir Hadzihafisbegovic,Zoran Radmilovic,Jelena Covic,Tomislav Gelic,Davor Dujmovic,Amer Kapetanovic,Silvija Puharic,Zaim Muzaferija,Bozidarka Frajt,Emir Kusturica
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A delightfully warm comedy, seen through the eyes of a six year old boy who thinks his father is away on business, when in actuality he's been sent to the mines for having an affair.
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