| Record Number |
788242 |
| Title |
Sweet country [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Distributed in Australia by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd, ©2018. |
| ©2017. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (108 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Universal : DJ1364. |
| Originally produced in Australia and released as a motion picture in 2017. |
| Special features : behind the scenes ; Sam Neill & Bryan Brown ; Warwick & Dylan Thornton ; David Tranter - the true story of 'Sweet country'. |
| WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons. |
| Creation Note |
Director, Warwick Thornton ; producers, Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey ; screenwriters, David Tranter, Steven McGregor. |
| Performer note |
Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie, Anni Finsterer, Gibson JohnTremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, Natassia Gorey-Furber. |
| Summary Note |
Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback of Northern Territory, Australia. Sam is a middle-aged Aboriginal farmer in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. He is sent by a preacher to help a bitter war veteran named Harry renovate the latter's cattle yards. Sam's relationship with Harry quickly deteriorates, resulting in a fight ending with Sam killing Harry in self-defence. For the murder of a white man, Sam is now on the run from the law with his wife across the deadly outback. A manhunt for the farmer is on, led by Sergeant Fletcher, but questions of justice start to surface among the community as the true details of the murder come to light. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
| Language note |
English dialogue ; [CC] English Captions: (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired), [AD] English Audio Description: (Descriptive narration for the vision impaired). |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Drama |
| Farmers, Aboriginal Australian -- Drama |
| Manslaughter -- Drama |
| Fugitives from justice -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Australia |
| Motion pictures, Australian |
| Manslaughter -- Drama |
| Fugitives from justice -- Drama |
| Northern Territory -- History -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Northern Territory -- History -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Historical films. |
| Western films. |
| Feature films. |
| Fiction films. |
| Added Author |
Thornton, Warwick film director. |
| Simpkin, Greer film producer. |
| Jowsey, David film producer. |
| Tranter, David J. screenwriter. |
| McGregor, Steven screenwriter. |
| Morris, Hamilton actor. |
| Neill, Sam actor. |
| Wright, Thomas M., 1983- actor. |
| Day, Matt, 1971- actor. |
| Leslie, Ewen, 1980- actor. |
| Finsterer, Anni actor. |
| John, Gibson actor. |
| Doolan, Tremayne actor. |
| Doolan, Trevon actor. |
| Corporate Author |
Screen Australia presenter. |
| Screen NSW (New South Wales) presenter. |
| South Australian Film Corporation presenter. |
| Added title |
Sweet country (Motion picture : 2017) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F SWEE |
