Black and White

Black and White

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Child Murder | Illiteracy

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Craig Lahiff
  • Cast(s): Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 39min
  • Music: Cezary Skubiszewski
  • Award(s): AFI 2003 (Won)
    AFI 2003 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Song Sung Blue
  • Story:
    Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.
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STORY

Story
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.

AWARDS

Won
AFI Award

Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2003 | David

Nominations
AFI Award

Best Costume Design | 2003 | Annie

FCCA Award

Best Screenplay Original | 2003 | Louis

TRIVIA

Trivia

Australian actors Colin Friels and Ben Mendelsohn about six years earlier both previously appeared in the Australian movie 'Cosi' (1996).

The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC, CMG said that this film ''is a reminder to us of the dangers of formalism and blindness to prejudice that can be inherent in our work unless we are on guard. Although there have been great improvements in the courts of our country since the proceedings portrayed in Black and White, we the judicial officers of Australia today should watch the film to reinforce our commitment to the avoidance of errors of the kind that the film chronicles."

The real Max Stuart appears in the final scene of the film as Old Max Stuart / himself as an older man.

Screenwriter Louis Nowra suggested Ben Mendelsohn for the role of Rupert Murdoch.

After portraying the real life young newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch in this film, actor Ben Mendelsohn would portray another real life ''Rupert'' character just a few years later, when he portrayed the real life Australian film director Rupert Kathner in the docu-drama 'Hunt Angels' (2006). Both productions are period films with the first being set in 1958 and the second in 1939.