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High Ground is a 2020 Australian film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, based on historical events that took place in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, set just after World War I. It has variously been called a revisionist Western and meat pie Western.
May 14, 2021 · Set against the stunning landscapes of 1930s Arnhem Land, HIGH GROUND chronicles young Aboriginal man Gutjuk, who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara - the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, who is also his uncle.
May 14, 2021 · “High Ground” is the latest Australian film—after Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” Justin Kurzel’s “True History of the Kelly Gang,” and Leah Purcell's “The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson”—to interrogate the belief that the continent was just empty and waiting for foreign settlers.
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
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Feb 23, 2020 · ‘High Ground’: Film Review | Berlin 2020. White settlers clash with Aboriginal Australians in Stephen Maxwell Johnson's visually impressive Western-style revenge drama 'High Ground.'
Feb 23, 2020 · Covering a violent chapter of colonial history, Stephen Maxwell Johnson's Australian western excavates ugly truths beneath lush lensing.
Set against the stunning landscapes of 1930s Arnhem Land, HIGH GROUND chronicles young Aboriginal man Gutjuk, who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara - the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, who is also his uncle.
After fighting in the First World War as a sniper, Travis, now a policeman in the vast empty spaces of Northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe.
