Description: Before coming to America to make such acclaimed films as Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy, Australian director Bruce Beresford made a lasting impression with this compelling courtroom drama, considered one the finest films of the Australian new wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Based on a true story about three soldiers in the Boer War who are served up as political scapegoats of the British Empire, the film uses a flashback structure to dramatise the courtroom testimony. It begins when the three Australian soldiers are railroaded for the justified killing of a German missionary and placed on trial for court-martial not as a matter of justice, but to mollify the German government for the sake of political expediency. Burdened with a competent but inexperienced and hopelessly disadvantaged lawyer, the soldiers realise that their fate has been sealed and the outcome of their trial is a fait accompli. Unfolding with urgent precision and a riveting focus on its well-drawn characters, Breaker Morant was the all-time box-office hit in Australia at the time of its release in 1980, and it remains one of the very best historical dramas ever made.
Price: 6.95 AUD
Location: Northam, Western Australia
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Region Code: DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)
Actor: Charles 'bud' Tingwell, Russell Kiefel, Vincent Ball, Rod Mullinar, Chris Smith, Terence Donovan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Ray Meagher, Chris Haywood, Rob Steele, Alan Cassell, Bryan Brown, John Waters, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson
Movie/TV Title: Breaker Morant
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rating: PG
Director: Bruce Beresford
Format: DVD
Language: English
Genre: War
Run Time: 102 Mins
Type: Dvd
