The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Overview

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.

Release Date

22 April 1998

93 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Sonja Buloh
Sonja (aged 8)
Mrs Michnik
Politician
Mrs Heaney
Maja Picotti