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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 ...
Apr 6, 2018 · 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
Sep 7, 2017 · About Sweet Country Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian Western film directed by Warwick Thornton. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film...
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Sep 26, 2022 · 63 subscribers. 2. 94 views 1 year ago. Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal...
The Nightingale, The Proposition and this film, Sweet Country, are all filled with dehumanization and graphic violence, portraying the 19th and 20th century Outback as a brutal place where the majority of the pain and suffering lands squarely on the backs of the Aboriginal people.
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- Bunya Productions, Sweet Country Films
- Warwick Thornton
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.
Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback Northern Territory. When Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills white station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie) in self-defence, Sam and his wife Lizzie (Natassia Gorey-Furber) go on the run.
