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A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.Read moreLess
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
The story
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
Cast & crew
Kerry FoxSonja Buloh
Kristof KaczmarekBojan Buloh
Evelyn KrapeJenja
Essie DavisJean
Jacek KomanPicotti
Melita JurišićMariaExplore the crew
- Director
- Richard Flanagan
- Screenplay
- Richard Flanagan
- Producer
- Rolf de Heer
- Director of Photography
- Martin McGrath
- Editor
- Tania Nehme
- Editor
- John Scott