Film still from the feature film "Charlie's Country" by Rolf de Heer (Australia 2014), John Brumpton (l.), David Gulpilil (m.) and Luke Ford (r.)
© 2014 Vertigo Productions, Screen Australia, South Australian Film
Corporation and Adelaide Film Festival
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Film still from the feature film "Charlie's Country" by Rolf de Heer (Australia 2014), John Brumpton (l.), David Gulpilil (m.) and Luke Ford (r.)
© 2014 Vertigo Productions, Screen Australia, South Australian Film
Corporation and Adelaide Film Festival
Film/Video
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY
Feature Film by Rolf de Heer
Australia 2014, 108 min., English and Yolngu
Australia 2014, 108 min., English and Yolngu
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| 5 EUR, reduced 2,50 EUR |
| 12 years and older |
| Duration: 108 min |
| English |
| Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Belongs to: Songlines |
Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie is a warrior past his prime. As the government increases its stranglehold over the community’s traditional way of life, Charlie becomes lost between two cultures. His new modern life offers him a way to survive but, ultimately, it is one he has no power over. Finally fed up when his gun, his newly crafted spear and his best friend’s jeep are confiscated, Charlie heads into the wild on his own, to live the old way. However Charlie hasn’t reckoned on where he might end up, nor on how much life has changed since the old ways…