Year: 2009
Directors: Jonathan Auf Der Heide
Writers: Jonathan Auf Der Heide & Oscar Redding
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Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Van Diemen's Land is the feature debut by Tasmanian director, Jonathan auf der Heide, a full-length adaptation of his short, Hell’s Gates. The film, set in the year 1882, tells the story of a group of convicts who manage to escape from a penal colony in ‘Van Diemen’s land’ (British occupied Tasmania). The group is made up of several Irish and Scottish men, and one understandably put upon Englishman. They traverse the brutal landscape in a futile attempt to reach Macquarie Harbour, where they hope to find a ship, and escape the island.
The retelling of a true story, in which the group succumbed to in-fighting, violence, extreme hunger and life threatening injuries, eventually breaking down and falling into a revolting pattern of murder and cannibalism,...
Directors: Jonathan Auf Der Heide
Writers: Jonathan Auf Der Heide & Oscar Redding
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Van Diemen's Land is the feature debut by Tasmanian director, Jonathan auf der Heide, a full-length adaptation of his short, Hell’s Gates. The film, set in the year 1882, tells the story of a group of convicts who manage to escape from a penal colony in ‘Van Diemen’s land’ (British occupied Tasmania). The group is made up of several Irish and Scottish men, and one understandably put upon Englishman. They traverse the brutal landscape in a futile attempt to reach Macquarie Harbour, where they hope to find a ship, and escape the island.
The retelling of a true story, in which the group succumbed to in-fighting, violence, extreme hunger and life threatening injuries, eventually breaking down and falling into a revolting pattern of murder and cannibalism,...
- 6/30/2009
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