The Last Wave
– White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged ..
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the aborigines and their prophecies.
01 Jan 1979
English, Italian, Aboriginal
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Peter Weir
Peter Weir (screenplay), Tony Morphett (screenplay), Petru Popescu (screenplay)
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.
4 wins & 7 nominations.
Cowboy Pictures