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:: DETAILS

Un anno vissuto pericolosamente
Reg./Dir.:
Peter Weir
Sogg./Story
C.J. Koch
Tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di C.J. Koch
Scen./Script:
C.J. Koch
Peter Weir
David Williamson
Fot./Phot.:
Russell Boyd
Mont./Ed.:
William M. Anderson
Mus.:
Maurice Jarre
Scg./Art Dir.:
Herbert Pinter
Cos.:
Terry Ryan
Int./Cast:
Mel Gibson (Guy S. Hamilton)
Sigourney Weaver (Jill Bryany)
Linda Hunt (Billy Kwan)
Bembol Roco (Kumar)
Domingo Landicho (Hortono)
Hermino De Guzman (Immigration Officer)
Michael Murphy (Pete Curtis)
Noel Ferrier (Wally O'Sullivan)
Paul Sonkkila (Kevin Condon)
Ali Nur (Ali)
Prod.:
Peter Weir
Jim Mcelroy
Mcelroy ProductionOrig.:
Australia 1982
117’ / v.o. inglese / 35 mm

:: PLOT

Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Guy soon is the hottest reporter on the story with the help of his photographer, half- Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan, who has gone native. Guy's affair with Jill Bryant, an attaché with the British embassy, complicates his life. Eventually Guy must face some major moral choices and the relationship between Billy and him reaches a crisis at the same time the politics of Indonesia does.

:: BIOGRAHY

PETER WEIR
Born in Sydney, Peter Weir began his career by shooting three short films, all of which received awards, and his first feature length film, The Cars that Ate Paris, a comic horror movie based on a story of his. International success arrived in 1975 with Picnic at Hanging Rock, which then went on to become the most successful Australian film of the decade. The Last Wave came two years later, starring Richard Chamberlain as a lawyer obsessed by recurring dreams. In 1978 he directed The Plumber. His following film, Gallipoli, starring Mel Gibson, tells the story of two young Australian men caught up in the idealistic fervour of World War I. The film received numerous awards and was a worldwide success. In 1983 Weir worked with Gibson again, in The Year of Living Dangerously, also starring Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt, in an unforgettable performance which won her an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. In 1985 Weir made Witness, a thriller about a young boy who witnesses a murder, thus unbalancing the Amish community he lives in. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Film and Best Director. Peter Weir moved to the United States in the mid Eighties, directing a string of successful films. At the 1989 Venice Film Festival he presented Dead Poets Society, an international success which earned him yet another Oscar nomination, as well as numerous prizes. Fearless came next, starring Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini and John Turturro, a film about the different reactions of people faced with tragic loss. Weir returned to Venice in 1998 with The Truman Show, the story of a man who, unawares, lives inside the longest running and most successful soap opera in history. More recently Weir has directed Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, starring Russell Crowe, that won 2 Oscar.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

FILMOGRAFIA
Filmography
1971
Homesdale
1974
The Cars That Ate Paris (Le macchine che distrussero Parigi)
1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1976
Luke’s Kingdom
1977
The Last Wave (L’ultima onda)
1979
The Plumber (L’uomo di stagno)
1981
Gallipoli (Gli anni spezzati)
1982
The Year of Living Dangerously (Un anno vissuto pericolosamente)
1985
Witness (Witness – Il testimone)
1986
The Mosquito Coast
1989
Dead Poets Society (L’attimo fuggente)
1990
Green Card
1993
Fearless (Fearless – Senza paura)
1998
The Truman Show
2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World