40.000 Jahre Träumen
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40,000 years of dreaming
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Australien: 40.000 Years of Dreaming
director:
George Miller
playwright:
George Miller
actor:
George Miller
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Joseph Campbell
genre:
Documentary
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TV Movie
region:
Australia
language:
English
length: 1h 7m
release date: 1996-11-23
IMDb: tt0115441
overview
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."