Brothers (1982 film)

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Brothers
Brothers1982poster.jpg
Promotional poster
Based onReflex
by Roger Ward
Screenplay by Terry Bourke
Roger Ward
Directed byTerry Bourke
Starring Ivar Kants
Chard Hayward
Jennifer Cluff
Margaret Laurence
Music byBob Young
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersBrock Halliday
Frank Wilkie
ProducerTerry Bourke
CinematographyRay Henman
EditorRon Williams
Running time103 minutes
Production companyAreflex Pictures
Budget$1.2 million [1]
Original release
Release25 September 1982 (1982-09-25) [2]

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. [3]

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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

The Timor Five

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. [4] Ward eventually sold the project to Terry Bourke, who rewrote Ward's script extensively. [5]

The movie was shot in the Philippines, Taihape and Narrabeen. [6]

Release

The movie had its world premiere in Taihape, New Zealand. [1]

The film was not released in Australian cinemas but was screened on television. Roger Ward is trying to get funding for a new version of his novel. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "ABC rushes in with music from Australian films". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 July 1982. p. 41.
  2. "PRODUCTION [?]N ROUNDUP". Filmnews . Vol. 12, no. 7. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1982. p. 10. Retrieved 29 December 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  3. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p136-137
  4. "International round up". Cinema Papers. December 1979 – January 1980. p. 679.
  5. 1 2 'Roger Ward Guest Post: The History of "Brothers" ', The Death Rattle, 22 November 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2012
  6. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 pp. 20-21