Credits
Distributed by
Becker Entertainment
Production companies
Rumbalara Films
Olsen Levy
Showtime Australia
Directed by
Phillip Noyce
Screenplay by
Christine Olsen
Based on
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
by Doris Pilkington Garimara
Produced by
Phillip Noyce
Christine Olsen
John Winter
Starring
Everlyn Sampi
Tianna Sansbury
Laura Monaghan
David Gulpilil
Kenneth Branagh
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle
Edited by
Veronika Jenet
John Scott
Music by
Peter Gabriel
DETAILS
In 1931, two sisters - 14-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Daisy - and their 10-year-old cousin Gracie live in the Western Australian town of Jigalong. The town lies along the northern part of one of the fences making up Australia's rabbit-proof fence (called Number One Fence), which runs for over one thousand miles. Over a thousand miles away in Perth, the official Protector of Western Australian Aborigines, A. O. Neville (called Mr. Devil by them), signs an order to relocate the three girls to the Moore River Native Settlement. The children are referred to by Neville as "half-castes", because they have one white and one Aboriginal parent. Neville's reasoning is portrayed as: the Aboriginal people of Australia are a danger to themselves, and the "half-castes" must be bred out of existence. He plans to place the girls in a camp where they, along with all half-castes of that age range, both boys and girls, will grow up. They will then presumably become labourers and servants to white families, regarded as a "good" situation for them in life. Eventually if they marry, it will be to white people and thus the Aboriginal "blood" will diminish. As such, the three girls are forcibly taken from their families at Jigalong by a local constable, Riggs, and sent to the camp at the Moore River Native Settlement, in the south west, about 90 km (55 miles) north of Perth.
28 авг 2024
