Resistance (1992 film)

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Resistance
Directed byPaul Elliott
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Written byThe Macau Collective
Produced byChristine Ferguson
Pauline Rosenberg
Jenny Day
Starring Lorna Lesley
Jennifer Claire
CinematographySally Bongers
Edited byStewart Young
Music byDavood A. Tabrizi
Production
companies
Macau Light Film Corporation
Australian Film Finance Corporation
Wingar
Workers Power
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
95 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Resistance is a 1992 Australian film set in the future in a military dictatorship. [1]

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p130