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Director:
Peter Duncan
Writers:
Peter Duncan (written by)
Kees van der Hulst (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
31 January 2008 (Netherlands) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
to love, sometimes we must risk everything.
Plot:
An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel. | full synopsis
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Awards:
15 wins & 13 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Sandler's 'Zohan' tops Aussie chart
 (From digitalspy. 25 June 2008, 4:04 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Flawed socio-romantic drama more (8 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
William McInnes ... John Woldring
Monic Hendrickx ... Tahmeena
Milo ... Elvis
Bille Brown ... Bob Potter

Christopher Sommers ... Mike Potter
David Field ... Sgt Carl Allen

Sam Cotton ... Angus
Christina Anderson ... Supermarket Shopper
Renai Caruso ... Kate
Zulaikha Deen ... Shahla (6yo)
Scott McRae ... Policeman #1

Roy Billing ... Royce
Mercia Deane-Johns ... Barbara
Philippa Coulthard ... Rose (as Philippa Couthard)
Hannah Cocker ... Shahla (11yo)
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English | Dari
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M
Filming Locations:
Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia more
Company:
New Holland Pictures more

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "De wereld draait door: (#4.67)" (2008) more

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11 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Flawed socio-romantic drama, 18 April 2008
4/10
Author: Michael Open from Belfast, NI

This film demonstrates how fragile film aesthetics are. Quite possibly as a novel, which takes time to read and allows us to accommodate shifts in our emotions, it could be fine. But here we have, essentially two conflicting stories that are jammed onto one another with destructive results.

One story is a tough, indeed brutal, issues movie dealing with justice, male dominance and humanist sentiments, the other is a touching romance about two vulnerable people trying to heal each other from their emotional scars. Neither of these is very original and the one, in my view, emotionally precludes the other. When we are steamed up about injustice, we cannot access the very fine-tuned emotions associated with love.

One of the greatest things about the film medium is its ability to twist time and integrate the past into the present. But here, that is the film's undoing. If the story had been told chronologically, we would at least have been able to get the nastiness out of the way and empathise with the romance, but the threat and extremely crude depictions of the 'horrors of the brothel' keep bursting back in, destroying any subtle emotions that have been generated.

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