Displaced Persons (film)

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Displaced Persons
Directed byGeoffrey Nottage
Written by Louis Nowra
Produced byJan Chapman
Starring John Wood
Distributed byABC
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryAustralia
Languages English
Czech
Polish
Hungarian
German
Italian

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

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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.

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p45
  2. Review at Sydney Morning Herald 23 September 1985 accessed 23 June 2013
  3. Interview with Louis Nowra accessed 11 March 2014