“Are they dreams or nightmares...Nightmares or premonitions?”
When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
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Cast
40 people
Arthur Dignam
Professor Bernard Thornton
Known for
Australia
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Penny Cook
Cathy Thornton
Also in
A Country Practice
Pulse
Mario Andreacchio
Suresh Ayyar
Antony I Ginnane
Gary Sweet
Geoff
Known for
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Pacific
Rob George
David Foreman
Wayne Groom
Laurence Clifford
Najira
Also in
Black Talk
Nightmaster
Craig Lahiff
Stephanie McCarthy
Mario Andreacchio Director · Rob George Writer Stephanie McCarthy Writer
Budget $2.2M · First release May 13, 1988 · Produced in Australia
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Budget
$2,200,000
Production
FGH
Production
Genesis Films
Production
International Film Management
Production
South Australian Film Corporation
Production
Australia
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Australia · May 13, 1988
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
May 13, 1988 · Cannes Film Festival
Japan
January 13, 1990
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