The Battlers

The Battlers

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Depression Era | Bar Fight

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  • Genre(s): Drama, TV Movie
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): George Ogilvie, Joanne McLennan, Toby Pease, Karan Monkhouse, Christie McGuinness See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Gary Sweet, Jacqueline McKenzie, Marcus Graham, Richard Piper, Anne Phelan See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 40min
  • Music: Frank Lipson,Peter D. Smith,Toivo Lember,Carl Vine
  • Award(s): Logie 1995 (Won)
    AFI 1994 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Christmas Under the Northern Lights, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
  • Story:
    Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
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STORY

Story
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

AWARDS

Won
Logie Award

Most Popular Drama | 1995

Australian Screen Music Award

Best Music for a MiniSeries or Telemovie | 1994

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen | 1994

Nominations
AFI Award

Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama | 1994 | Jacqueline

Best Telefeature Mini Series or Short Run Series | 1994

TRIVIA

Trivia

This mini-series is part of a genre of filmed productions which is known as ''depression era drama''.

This mini-series was made and first broadcast about fifty-three years after its source novel of the same name by Kylie Tennant had been first published in 1941.

Jacqueline McKenzie was nominated for an AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama but lost out to Monica Maughan for 'The Damnation of Harvey McHugh' for the "My Brilliant Chorea" episode.

This mini-series won the Logie Award for Most Popular Drama at their Australian television awards ceremony in 1995.

This mini-series was first broadcast in 1994 which was about sixty years after when the story is set in 1934.