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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 The Gift
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Film Details - 1988

Producers:

Patricia Edgar (executive producer); Michael Friedman (producer).

Production Companies:

The Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Finance Organisations:

Film Victoria and the Western Australian Government through the Department of the Arts.

Director of Photography:

Nino Gaetano Martinetti.

Editors:

Russell Hurley.

Production Designers:

Paul Ammitzboll.

Music:

Tassos Ioannides.

Cast:

Nicholas Hatjiandreou (Nikos), Vicki Serbos (Sophia), Alexis Anthopoulos (Christos), Constantin Laras (Costa), Rena Frangloudakis (Helena), Peter Felmingham (Peter), Margaret Ford (Vera), Michael Milsom (Michael), Victoria Eagger (The Librarian), Ken James (Clive Miller), Bill McCluskey (George), and Barry Dickins (The Bus Driver).

Release Dates:

24 April 1988 (Australia).

Location:

  • Filmed (and set) in Melbourne, Victoria, across South Australia (including the Great Australian Bight) and Western Australia (including the Nullarbor Plain), and in Eucla, Western Australia.
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