| Record Number |
69302 |
| License Until |
31/05/2021 |
| Country |
Australia |
| Production Company |
South Australian Film Corporation/Australian FilmCommission/7 Network/Pact Productions Pty. Ltd |
| Title |
Breaker Morant [videorecording] |
| Distributor |
ENDEMOL Southern Star 1980 |
| Description |
Blu-ray Disc (102 min.) sound,color; 1.85:1 Anamorphic widescreen +DVD Extras: Theatrical Trailer / Original Poster / Photo Gallery/Documentary "The Breaker"/ The Myth Exploded (Director's postscript) |
| Notes |
Adapted from the play 'Breaker' Morant by Kenneth Ross. 'Silver Anniversary Edition' DVD released 2006. RATED M - FOR PERSONS 15YRS & OVER |
| Contents |
Blu-ray/DTS Digital Surround/Colour |
| Credits |
Producer: Matthew Carroll; Director: Bruce Beresford; Writers:Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford; Play: Kenneth Ross;Additional material: Kit Denton; Editor: William Anderson; DOP: DonMcAlpine; Production Design: David Copping; Costumes: Anna Senior. |
| Cast |
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown,Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Chris Haywood, RayMeagher, Alan Cassell. |
| Summary |
This examination of a hierarchy of loyalties and orders is based on a Boer War court martial of three colonial officers in the Bushveldt Carabineers who are sacrificed to the dictates of imperial expediency. The interweaving of courtroom drama with the re-creation of the events leading to the court martial is given a degree of moral complexity but the balance of sympathies is manipulated to favour the colonial underdogs. |
| Subjects |
War films |
| South African War, 1899-1902 -- Drama |
| Courts-martial and courts of inquiry |
| War crime trials |
| Feature films |
| Courtroom drama |
| Feature films -- Australia |
| Added Names |
South Australian Film Corporation |
| Meagher, Ray |
| Stevens, David |
| Carroll, Matt, 1944- |
| Brown, Bryan, 1947- |
| Beresford, Bruce, 1940- |
| Waters, John |
| Fitz-Gerald, Lewis |
| McAlpine, Don |
| Ross, K G (Ken G) Breaker Morant |
| Pact Productions |
| Haywood, Chris |
| Anderson, William |
| Woodward, Edward |
| Australian Film Commission |
| Morant, Breaker, 1865-1902 |
| Seven Network (Australia) |
| Thompson, Jack, 1940- |
| Copping, David |
| Hardy, Johnathan |
| Access Note |
Manual Restriction |
