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The story behind The Water Diviner. A single line in an archived letter sparked Faculty of Arts alumnus Andrew Anastasios’s fascination with the story that would ultimately become the movie The Water Diviner. While conducting research on events at Gallipoli, archaeologist, writer and University of Melbourne Arts alumnus, Andrew Anastasios ...
As The Water Diviner is released on commercial television and premieres in Los Angeles, researchers at Monash University reveal the identity of the film’s central character. Russell Crowe’s film retraces the footsteps of a grieving father who travels across Turkey, desperate to find his missing sons. It claims to be based on true events ...
The Water Diviner is a 2014 drama film starring and directed by Russell Crowe, in his directorial debut, and written by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. It is loosely based on the book of the same name by Anastasios and Dr. Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios. The film follows an Australian farmer, Joshua Connor (Crowe), who travels to Turkey soon ...
During the Centenary of Anzac, Russell Crowe’s film The Water Diviner told the story of the first Gallipoli pilgrim. Though based ‘on true events’ the film departed significantly from Thomas Murray’s actual journey. There was no surviving son to be found; no romantic entanglement in Istanbul; and Tom Murray’s grave—if he even has ...
Professor Bruce Scates is interviewed by Rebecca Wheatley on the real history behind the fictional drama film, "The Water Diviner", where an Australian farme...
Apr 17, 2015 · Russell Crowe directed and stars in “The Water Diviner,” which is ostensibly a labor of love for him, inspired by a true story. In his first venture into directing, Crowe has turned in ...
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Apr 24, 2015 · Russell Crowe's directorial debut "The Water Diviner," about a man trying to find three sons who disappeared at the battle of Gallipoli in Turkey 100 years ago, is a film divided against itself. It wants to be both a mournful and skeptical antiwar picture and a rousing adventure with splashes of buddy comedy, romance and borderline ...
