To Market to Market (film)

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To Market To Market
Directed byVirginia Rouse
Written byVirginia Rouse
Starring Philip Quast
Maureen Edwards
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$600,000 [1]

To Market To Market is a 1987 Australian political film directed by Virginia Rouse, who was once an assistant to Paul Cox, and starring Philip Quast. [2]

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The film was made with funding from the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria. [3]

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References

  1. "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p. 64
  2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 225
  3. Scott Murray, "To Market to Market", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p. 232