Released
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
April 22 1998 (over 26 years ago)Rating
28
Based on
4 reviews
A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.
- Director: Richard Flanagan
- Writer: Richard Flanagan
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 33 m
- Country: Australia
- Companies: Australian Film Finance Corporation, South Australian Film Corporation, Artist Services
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.
