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Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton.Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the British settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia.
Apr 6, 2018 · Sweet Country: Directed by Warwick Thornton. With Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill. Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Warwick Thornton
- 2018-04-06
Dec 3, 2018 · Sweet Country: ‘A stark, shocking movie, superbly shot by Thornton who is both cinematographer and director’. ... Fri 15 Sep 2017 21.28 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10.18 EST.
- Peter Bradshaw
- 2 min
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Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback. It's 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern ...
In 1920s Australia, an Aboriginal farmhand kills a white man in self-defense, then flees into the Outback, where he is pursued by a determined lawman. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 2017
- Warwick Thornton
Sep 7, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Sweet Country’ Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (competing), Sept. 6, 2017. (Also in Toronto Film Festival — Platform.) Running time: 112 MIN.
