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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

April 22 1998 (almost 27 years ago)
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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.

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