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Wake in Fright

"Wake in Fright", a long forgotten masterpiece, was first screened at Cannes under the title "Outback", leaving critics speechless thanks to its hypnotic cinematography and its uncensored look into the heart of darkness.

Is it even remotely possible that Ted Kotcheff, the director behind Sly Stallone's "First Blood", could be responsible for a little-known Australian new wave nightmare from 1971?

"Wake in Fright", a long forgotten masterpiece, was first screened at Cannes under the title "Outback", leaving critics speechless thanks to its hypnotic cinematography and its uncensored look into the heart of darkness. Because that's exactly where a civilized teacher will find himself after he gets stranded in a seemingly friendly but totally isolated mining town, about to experience a ritual descend into the depths of hell.

Alcohol, violence, outrageous hostility, repressed macho homosexuality and a brilliant Donald Pleasence as a paranoid maniac in a film that was unanimously proclaimed a masterpiece, yet was totally ignored by the public.

Until the original negative was discovered in a warehouse, was subsequently re-released in Australia and broke every box office record, instantly gaining cult status. T. Th.


wake in fright / ξύπνημα στον τρόμο - trailer από NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Ted Kotcheff

Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Evan Jones

Φωτογραφία / DoP
Brian West

Μουσική / Music
John Scott

Μοντάζ / Editor
Anthony Buckley

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle

Αυστραλία, ΗΠΑ / Australia, USA
1971
Εγχρωμο / Color
35mm
109'
Αγγλικά / English



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