Sweet Country

It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

Keywords

  • Australian Cinema
  • Black History Month
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • La Biennale di Venezia !
  • La Biennale di Venezia - Tax Shelter
  • LuxFilmFest
  • LuxFilmFest - Winners
  • Mostra: The best from the previous years
  • Just released

Actors

  • Hamilton Morris
  • Bryan Brown
  • Sam Neill
  • Thomas M. Wright
  • Ewen Leslie

Director

  • Warwick Thornton

Drama

1h 53min

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Australia
2018
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.


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