Find movie and film cast and crew information for Charlie's Country (2013) - Rolf de Heer on AllMovie Join a new generation of Australians! ", "Everyone ends up in the same damned place. Filming & Production Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie's Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. Take the quiz: Are you an Aboriginal movie buff? Last Updated: October 15, 2020. The two protest but the laws concerning gun ownership have changed to become harsher and more punitive. A sad and compassionate film of a man’s search for identity and belonging, “Charlie’s Country” originated as a vehicle around lead actor David Gulpilil’s talents and experiences as an Aboriginal man living and passing between indigenous Australian society and Anglo-Australian society. Shot on location in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. Details Cast David Gulpilil - Charlie Peter Djigirr - Black Pete Luke Ford - Luke (local cop) Bobby Bunungurr - Bobby Frances Djulibing Jennifer Budukpuduk Gaykamangu - Faith Jennifer Budukpuduk Gaykamangu Cast. Charlie's Country. David Gulpilil Screenplay and Cast. Cast & Crew. The film’s style, reliant on long takes of Gulpilil close up and with sparse dialogue, is very poignant and does a far better job of expressing emotion and deep feeling than one with more talk and fewer striking visual scenes. (as Kyal Elliott-Wilson), Prison Hairdresser Charlie's Country (2013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Language in English and Yolngu (subtitled). Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Acorn TV, Sundance Now and Disney+) available to watch this week. He manages to be knowledgeable about many things yet remains something of a naif. He shares his money (earned from helping police track escaped criminals in the bush) and buys alcohol for the group but the police chase him down and he is tried, convicted and sent to jail for buying and giving grog to people banned from drinking, and for resisting police arrest. Note: Film might not be available at all suppliers. Apart from Charlie who completely dominates the film, other characters are little more than stereotypes. Spread the virus that needs spreading: knowledge. Check out the latest photos and bios of the cast and filmmakers of Charlie's Country. Didgerido, Queen Elizabeth II Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, Gaz's Sidekick Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties. Charlie's Country movie cast and actor biographies. With the powerful themes and messages about belonging and how people cope with an inhumane capitalist system that oppresses and separates white and black people alike, “Charlie’s Country” inevitably comes to a resolution that seems quite thin and insubstantial. Frances Djulibing Cast. Many see Charlie's Country as the third part of Rolf de Heer's trilogy: The Tracker was history, Ten Canoes was pre-history and Charlie’s Country is about the present. Creative Spirits acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the true custodians of the land in which we live and work. Frances Djulibing Cast. Filming & Production In the nick of time, his friends find him and the police arrange for him to be hospitalised in Darwin. * Required field | Privacy policy | Read a sample. Sort by: Rolf de Heer Director, Screenplay, and Producer. Audiences see the conditions in which Charlie’s community ekes out an existence; the extent to which white people control Aboriginal people’s lives (to the point of feeding them deep-fried garbage that makes them sick over the long term) is alarming. Grief-stricken and fearing for his own life, Charlie escapes from hospital into the streets of Darwin and promptly falls in with a group of alcohol-addicted Aboriginal people. While travelling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex. Director Rolf de Heer explains how Charlie's Country was conceived: "The film came about because David Gulpilil is somebody I've worked with a number of times and a friend, and he began to get himself into deeper and deeper strife with alcohol and he ended up in jail, and I thought I better go and visit him and find out what could be done if anything, and the one thing that David really wanted to do was make another film together. — Frank. I'm shocked to find out that it's taken so long to be brought to light… Thanks for doing such important work!" Jail is a disheartening and dreary experience but a young counsellor finds Charlie a dry community to serve out his time. Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking a New York court to grant him bail while he waits to see if an appeal on his rape conviction is granted. Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. Charlie may have found a creative outlet that gives him opportunities to let off steam and help the children in his community, but how long that will pass, and whether whitefella laws will let it continue or nip it in the bud, is hard to predict. Peter Djigirr Cast and Producer. Charlie Countryman (originally titled The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) is a 2013 American-Romanian romantic drama film directed by Fredrik Bond in his directorial debut, written by Matt Drake, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood and Mads Mikkelsen.. Charlie’s Country has an important message for all young people about the destruction that drugs and alcohol can cause, according to its leading man David Gulpilil. Charlie goes off with a pal to hunt and shoot a buffalo (so they can provide their people with fresh meat) but their prize is confiscated by police when the coppers discover the two men do not have licences for their gun and rifle. Charlie (Gulpilil) is an elder in his Yolngu community who is becoming increasingly disenchanted with life in his tribal community. The 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. | (as Josh Williams), Darwin Police Charlie's Country movie cast and actor biographies. | Luke Ford Cast. Charlie Countryman (2013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Why not explore what Australian governments also want to keep under lock and key? The film does a good job though showing that the white people who interact with Charlie themselves are also struggling with a system (which they don’t necessarily understand) that treats them as cyphers and cogs at the same time that it is unsympathetic towards Charlie’s community. 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