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Mood:
- CaptivatingTenseContemplativeDisturbingRoughSuspensefulThought Provoking
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Plot:
- Fighting the SystemCourtroom DramaMilitary LifeDishonestyLegalMilitarySocietyState Affairs more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriodWar
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Time/Period:
- 1900s19th Century20th Century
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Place:
- AfricaAustraliaSouth Africa
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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- Based on PlayBiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Breaker Morant, 1980
English, Dutch
Australia
Profile of Breaker Morant
The mood of Breaker Morant is tense, captivating, and disturbing. The plot centers around courtroom drama, military life, and legal issues. It is a drama, historical, and period movie. In approach, Breaker Morant is serious and realistic. The setting is South Africa and Australia. It happens in the 1900s and in the 19th century. Breaker Morant is adapted from a play, drawn from a biography, and originally a true story. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Breaker Morant
One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Breaker Morant marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to the Bushveld Carbineers, a guerrilla warfare unit of the British army that operated during the Boer War (1899-1902). Edward Woodward stars as Lt. Harry "Breaker" Morant, the primus inter pares of this trio that includes Lt. Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Lt. George Witton (Lewis Fitzgerald). Attorney Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) is given only one day to mount a defense of the officers, who have been charged with the death of Boer prisoners and a German minister. Weaving flashbacks into the trial proceedings, Beresford tells the story of the controversial killing, an act of revenge against the Boers for having killed and mutilated a close friend of Morant's. While the young Witton fears for his life, Morant and Handcock display only a caustically witty stoicism as they await the trial's outcome. Superbly executed in every area, the film is a memorable evocation of the hypocrisy of empire.
Details
| Language: | English, Dutch |
| Country: | Australia |
| Release date: | October 1980 |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
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as Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant
as Maj. J.F. Thomas
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Users Reviews
- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie
10/10Must See
