Brothers (1982 film)
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{{Infobox television
| image = brothers1982poster.jpg
| image_upright =
| image_alt =
| caption = Promotional poster
| genre =
| creator =
| based_on = {{based on|Reflex|Roger Ward}}
| writer =
| screenplay = Terry Bourke
Roger Ward
| story =
| director = Terry Bourke
| starring = Ivar Kants
Chard Hayward
Jennifer Cluff
Margaret Laurence
| narrated =
| music = Bob Young
| country = Australia
| language = English
| num_episodes =
| producer = Terry Bourke
| executive_producer = Brock Halliday
Frank Wilkie
| editor = Ron Williams
| cinematography = Ray Henman
| runtime = 103 minutes
| budget = $1.2 million{{cite news|title=ABC rushes in with music from Australian films|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=24 July 1982|page=41}}
| network =
| company = Areflex Pictures
| released = {{Start date|1982|09|25|df=y}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213733639 |title=PRODUCTION [?]N ROUNDUP |newspaper=Filmnews |volume=12 |issue=7 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 July 1982 |accessdate=29 December 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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Brothers is a 1982 Australian drama television film directed by Terry Bourke. It includes a re-enactment of the 1975 murder of the Balibo Five in East Timor.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p136-137
Plot
Five Australian journalists are killed in East Timor during the 1975 uprising. Two brothers, Kevin and Adam, survive the incident. Years later, Kevin is living in a small town in New Zealand, engaged to Jenine. Adam arrives to persuade Kevin to return to journalism. Adam begins a romantic relationship with Lani.
Adam and Lani break up after he is beaten up by toughs in a fight that Adam could have avoided. Adam gets with another woman, Alison. Lani becomes a prostitute and tries to kill herself. Adam comes to see Kevin and discovers that Lani has had a complete breakdown and the entire town where Kevin lives hates Adam. A mob of people arrive to beat up Adam but Kevin does it.
Later a bus carrying Alison is driving along. Adam follows. The bus crashes and Alison is killed.
Cast
- Chard Hayward as Adam Wild
- Ivar Kants as Kevin Wild
- Margaret Laurence as Lani Aveson
- Jennifer Cluff as Alison Lewis
- Alyson Best as Jenine Williams
- Joan Bruce as Mrs Williams
- Les Foxcroft as Jim Williams
- James Elliott as Rev. Maynard
- Ricky May as Billy
- Ken Wayne as bureau chief
- Moira Walker as Connie Aveson
=The Timor Five=
- Desmond Tester as journalist one
- John Garwood as journalist two
- Roger Ward as cameraman one
- Ken Metcalfe as cameraman two
- Barry Adler as sound recordist
Production
The script was based on a novel Reflex by Australian actor and writer Roger Ward. It was about a photojournalist in Vietnam inspired by Sean Flynn. Ward almost got up a film based on the novel in the early 70s with Jack Thompson in the lead but it did not happen. Ward spent the next few years trying to set up the film elsewhere. In late 1979 it was announced he would make the film in New Zealand in February 1980 in New Zealand with Perth doctor Jon Sainken.{{cite magazine|magazine=Cinema Papers|title=International round up|url=https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/cinemapaper1979decno024|date=December 1979 – January 1980|page=679}} Ward eventually sold the project to Terry Bourke, who rewrote Ward's script extensively.[http://www.thedeathrattle.net/2011/11/roger-ward-guest-post-history-of.html 'Roger Ward Guest Post: The History of "Brothers" ', The Death Rattle, 22 November 2011]. Retrieved 11 October 2012
The movie was shot in the Philippines, Taihape and Narrabeen.Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 pp. 20-21
Release
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0123573}}
- [https://misacor.org.au/item/17674-brothers Brothers] at Peter Malone site
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Category:Films based on Australian novels
Category:Films set in Timor-Leste
Category:Films shot in the Philippines
Category:1980s English-language films
Category:Australian drama television films
Category:Films directed by Terry Bourke
Category:1980s Australian films
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