![]() 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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