Displaced Persons (film) explained

Director:Geoffrey Nottage
Producer:Jan Chapman
Starring:John Wood
Channel:ABC
Runtime:75 minutes
Country:Australia
Language:English
Czech
Polish
Hungarian
German
Italian

Displaced Persons is a 1985 Australian TV movie about refugees arriving in Australia in 1945.[1] [2]

It was the first script written by Louis Nowra, who was inspired by a book he read about displaced people in Australia after World War Two. He wrote it in three days and sent it to the ABC who agreed to make it.[3]

The movie was well received and Nowra went on to write a number of works for the ABC.

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p45
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19850923&id=MDZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4670,5911823 Review at Sydney Morning Herald 23 September 1985
  3. http://www.aftrs.edu.au/media/books/lumina/lumina9-ch23/index.html Interview with Louis Nowra