Australia
Australia
“ Welcome to Australia! ”
CINEMA2008-11-18
DIGITAL2008-12-24
RegionAU / GB
Runtime165 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Reconstructs Indigenous Australian memory through oral storytelling and cultural continuity.”
Storyline
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
DIRECTOR / Director
Baz Luhrmann
KEYWORDS
australiamissionaryworld war iiranchcattle driveracistprejudicesuspicion of adulteryaustralian outback1940s1930sstampedetrampled to deathkimberley
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Bloodstained scars left by imperial conquest—the oppressed rising from the ashes to reclaim sacred human sovereignty.
Reconstructs Indigenous Australian memory through oral storytelling and cultural continuity.
