| Winter of Our Dreams | |
| Producer: | Richard Mason |
| Director: | John Duigan |
| Starring: | Judy Davis Bryan Brown Baz Luhrmann |
| Music: | Sharon Calcraft |
| Cinematography: | Tom Cowan |
| Editing: | Henry Dangar |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | AU$320,000[1] |
| Gross: | $959,000 (Australia) |
Winter of Our Dreams is a 1981 Australian drama film directed by John Duigan. Judy Davis won the Best Actress in a Lead Role in the AFI Awards for her performance in the film. The film was nominated in 6 other categories also.[2] It was also entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where Judy Davis won the award for Best Actress.[3]
Rob (Bryan Brown), a bookshop owner, hears of the suicide of an old girlfriend Lisa (Margie McCrae). While investigating the case he meets Lou (Judy Davis), a prostitute and old friend of Lisa's.
In the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was used in Winter of Our Dreams.[1]
There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain.[1]
Winter of Our Dreams was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia,[4] which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars.