Record Number |
849908 |
Title |
High ground [videorecording]. |
Publisher/Date |
[East Melbourne, Vic.]: Madman Entertainment, 2021. |
©2020 |
Pagination etc. |
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
Creation Note |
Directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson. |
Performer note |
Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Witiyana Marika, Simon Baker, Sean Mununggurr, Jack Thompson, Callan Mulvey, Caren Pistorius, Esmeralda Marimowa, Aaron Pedersen. |
Summary Note |
1919. WWI sniper Travis, now a policeman in the vast and remote landscape of Northern Australia, loses control of an operation resulting in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. With his superior officer's intent on burying the truth, Travis leaves before being forced back twelve years later in the hunt for outlaw Baywara, an Aboriginal warrior attacking new-settlers. Recruiting Gutjuk as his Tracker, Travis realises this young mission-raised Indigenous man is the only known massacre survivor. When the truths of Travis' past actions are suddenly revealed, it is he who becomes the hunted... |
Target audience note |
Rated: MA15+ |
Language note |
In English. English Captions. |
Subject |
Men, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Drama |
Snipers -- Australia -- Drama |
Massacres -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Drama |
Revenge -- Drama |
Tracking and trailing -- Australia -- Drama |
Australia -- Race relations -- History -- Drama |
Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- History -- Drama |
Feature films. |
Historical films. |
Thrillers (Motion pictures) |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Action and adventure films. |
Added Author |
Johnson, Stephen Maxwell director. |
Nayinggul, Jacob Junior actor. |
Marika, Witiyana actor. |
Baker, Simon, 1969- actor. |
Mununggurr, Sean actor. |
Thompson, Jack, 1940- actor. |
Mulvey, Callan, 1975- actor. |
Marimowa, Esmeralda actor. |
Shelf Location |
DVD F HIGH |