About The Last Wave
- Rating:
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PG
PG
- Year Released:
- 1977
- Genres:
- Drama, Thriller
- Metadata:
- Directed by Peter Weir
Under brooding rainstorms over Sydney, a lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) is enlisted to defend four aboriginals who have been accused of murdering another. As he explores the case and learns about aboriginal ideas about Dream-time and tribal killing by curse, the lawyer becomes plagued by increasingly bizarre dreams and develops a deep connection to one of the accused. Slowly unraveling a doomsday prophecy, he has a final showdown with the shaman of the tribe and learns the horrifying truth. (35mm presentation)
35mm film print courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.