Gentle Strangers | |
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Directed by | Cecil Holmes |
Written by | Cecil Holmes |
Produced by | Roland Beckett |
Starring | Yee Choo Koo |
Cinematography | Mick Bornemann Kerry Brown Bruce Hillyard Don McAlpine David Sanderson |
Edited by | Graham Chase |
Music by | Barry Conyngham |
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Release date |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Gentle Strangers is a 1972 Australian film directed by Cecil Holmes.
A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.
Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for Film Australia. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast. [1]
The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas. [1]
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