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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 · With Guruwuk Mununggurr, Wakarra Gondarra, Mark Garrawurra, Neville Namarnyilk. In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.
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- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Johnson
- 2021-05-14
Nov 11, 2020 · High Ground - Official Trailer. Madman Films. 247K subscribers. Subscribed. 1.4K. 784K views 3 years ago 2 products. #HighGround is available to watch on disc & digital:...
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Jan 26, 2021 · Meticulously crafted both on-screen and off – it took director Stephen Maxwell Johnson many years to earn the trust and co-operation of the indigenous communities whose stories and culture would be depicted – High Ground is an intense, visually stunning drama that draws on the genre conventions of the western, whilst transcending ...
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.
Mar 8, 2021 · High Ground takes the standard Western narrative of the posse being put together to deal with a marauding tribe of ‘natives’ terrorising settler communities and shifts our perspective on it.
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.
