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The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . [6]
Feb 18, 1983 · With Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
- (23K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Peter Weir
- 1983-02-18
Guy Hamilton, the journalist ( Mel Gibson ), is a lanky, Kennedyesque, chain-smoking young man who has a fix on excitement. He doesn't know the ropes in Indonesia, but he learns them quickly enough, from a dwarfish character named Billy Kwan.
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent.
The novel opens as Guy Hamilton, a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Service, arrives in Jakarta on assignment. He meets several members of the close-knit community of British and Australians in the city, which includes journalists and diplomatic personnel.
- Christopher Koch
- 1978
Jul 8, 2011 · The story of Australian radio journalist Guy Hamilton’s (Mel Gibson) first year in Jakarta—a year lived on the eve and during a coup attempt against Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, in 1965—was generally well received, but it was not the box office nor critical smash some hoped would come from the man who is still Australia’s ...
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Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
