When Father Was Away on Business

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{{Infobox Film

 | name = When Father Was Away on Business 
 | image = WhenFather.jpg
 | caption = VHS cover
 | director = Emir Kusturica
 | producer = Mirza Pasic
 | writer = Abdulah Sidran
 | starring  = Moreno D'E Bartolli
Miki Manojlovic
Mirjana Karanovic
Mustafa Nadarevic
Mira Furlan
 | music = Zoran Simjanovic
 | cinematography = Vilko Filac
 | editing = Andrija Zafranovic
 | distributor = ???
 | released = 1985
 | runtime =  136 min.
 | language = Serbocroatian
 | budget = ???
 | imdb_id = 0089748

}}

When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), 1985 is a film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. The screenplay was written by Abdulah Sidran.

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.

The story strikingly resembles those from the epoch of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.

The film unexpectedly won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1985) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The cast included: