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Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.
STRIKEBOUND è un film di genere drammatico del 1984, diretto da Richard Lowenstein, con Carol Burns e Nik Forster. Durata 97 minuti.
- Richard Lowenstein
- Carol Burns
20 set 1984 · Strikebound: Directed by Richard Lowenstein. With Chris Haywood, Carol Burns, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rob Steele. The dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra.
- (70)
- Drama
- Richard Lowenstein
- 1984-09-20
3 lug 2017 · Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. Strikebound is based on real events in Gippsland, Victoria in 1937, where Wattie Doig (Chris Haywood) is employed at the Sunbeam coal mine and his wife, Agnes (Carol Burns), is a member of the Salvation Army.
- 2 min
- Ghost Pictures Pty Ltd
The dramatised story of a coal-miners’ strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the ...
Strikebound is a welcome intervention into the apolitical period dramas (pejoratively referred to as the SAFC genre) that had come to dominate Australian prestige film making in the 1970s-80s (think Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock....fuck you Peter Weir).
