![]() ![]() It is not until the end of the film that Bojan’s suffering at the ceremony is fully explained. Gina aka Regina Gaigalas plays a fundamentalist Catholic, Mrs Michnik, who gets Bojan agitated at her attempts to instil religion into young Sonja, while Julie Forsyth has a cameo as the neighbouring Mrs Heaney, who welcomes young Sonja into playing with her pack of children.įinally, Peter Hay plays the politician who opens the show by blathering on about Australia values at a citizenship ceremony, just as Bojan is experiencing the anguish of having found his wife dead, having hung herself from a tree outside the small migrant workers’ camp for the workers building a new dam in Tasmania (there is stock footage of the dam building under the opening credits). Jacek Koman plays a sneering Picotti, who is inclined to fiddle with young Sonja, while Jane Borghesi is briefly sighted as Maja Picotti. ![]() When Bojan tries to farm out his daughter, it only leads to further trouble. Sergio Tell is in the background as Jenja’s partner, Jiri.Įssie Davis appears briefly as Jean, who might have saved Bojan from alcoholism through love, but who is defeated by the difficulty of bonding with a single parent father and unhappy daughter. Amongst these were Sonja at age 3 (Arabella Wain), traumatised and smashing her porcelian toy set, and the director’s daughter Rosie Flanagan playing Sonja at age 8, still traumatised and and being handed around to assorted foster parents for money, with Kerry Fox playing the teenage version refusing to accept domestic violence at the hands of her alcoholic father.Įvelyn Krape played Sonja’s caring, motherly friend Jenja, who counsels Sonja against having an abortion, and gives her advice on domestic skills such as bread-making. Neither synopsis provided a full guide to the key cast. There was also a reviewer blurb: “A film that demands to be seen … powerful stuff!” - David Stratton, The Movie Show. Spanning continents and generations, The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a powerful drama about love lost between worlds, then found again. There she unearths a family history she never knew … a secret she was not told as a child … and finally what happened to her and her mother. Twenty years later, single and pregnant, Sonja returns to the migrant worker’s camp she once called home in an attempt to put the pieces of her life into some kind of perspective. Sixteen-year-old Sonja Buloh leaves her alcoholic father and troubled past, gets on a bus and doesn’t look back. On the rear cover there was a short synopsis: The original domestic VH release pitched the film as “A child without a past … A mother without a future … a story about love”, and highlighted its 'in competition' appearance at the Berlin Film Festival. Spanning continents and generations, The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a powerful drama about a love lost between worlds, then found again. As the shadows of her past recede, Sonja finally learns what happened to her, to her mother, and to her life. ![]() Initially there is awkwardness and pain, but slowly Sonja unearths a family history she never knew, and a secret she wasn't told as a child. Twenty years later, single and pregnant, she returns to the Tasmanian highlands, to her father, and attempts to put the pieces of her life into some coherent framework. Her distraught father Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) perseveres with their dream of a new life in a new country, but his hopes soon curdle into an alcoholic despair and Sonja, then sixteen, is driven to leave him. When the company was still in existence and acting as sales agent for the film, the Southern Star catalogue had this short synopsis for the film (cast names added):ĭuring the winter of 1954, in a construction camp of migrant workers in the remote Tasmanian wilderness, Sonja Buloh's (Kerry Fox) mother Maria (Melita Jurisic) walked into a blizzard and never returned.
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