Russell
Crowe, Ron Howard |
Director:
Russell Crowe
Writer: Bob Ellis, Russell Crowe
Production Company: Intermedia Films
Distributor: Currently seeking distribution in the USA. |
US:
00/TBA/04-5
UK: 00/TBA/04-5 |
Based
upon novel of the same title by the late Australian
author John Hepworth. Original writer Ellis was a friend
of Hepworth's. The novel was written in 1946, but not
published in novel form until 1995 (first published
as a serial in The Sunday Herald in late 1949). Set
in mid-1945 between VE Day and the fall of Japan, this
is the story of an Australian battalion sent to New
Guinea to force the beleaguered Japanese to retreat.
What they find when they arrive is a land covered with
the corpses of Americans and Japanese soldiers from
previous battles and starving and pitiful Japanese soldiers
who regardless continue to fight to the bloody end,
forcing some of the Australian soldiers to ponder the
meaning (or meaninglessness) of war. |
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This
is going to be earnest with a capital E. I'm also sure,
it'll all turn out to be the UKs fault a load of Aussies
die. |
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