Charlie's country

Resource Information

The work Charlie's country represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Charlie's country

Contributor

• Screen Australia
• South Australian Film Corporation
• De Heer, Rolf
• Djigirr, Peter,
• Ford, Luke, 1981-,
• Gulpilil,

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory | Arnhem Land -- Drama
• Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Northern Territory | Arnhem Land -- Drama
• Australia
• Drama
• Feature films -- Australia
• Intervention (Federal government) -- Australia | Northern Territory | Arnhem Land -- Drama
• Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Yolngu (Australian people) -- Northern Territory | Arnhem Land -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Summary

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The Government Intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing, sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser

Cataloging source

APLS

Credits note

Directed by Rolf de Heer; Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, Bula'bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

Censorship classification: M

Language note

English/Yolngu; [CC] English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired); AD (Audio description)

PerformerNote

David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford