They're a Weird Mob: 'Why don't you go back to your own bloody country' (1996)
1996
They're a Weird Mob: 'Why don't you go back to your own bloody country' (1996)
1996
- NFSA IDXESHE8SW
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Duration1 hr, 52 mins
- GenresMulticultural, Comedy
- Year1996
A drunken Anglo-Australian (Keith Petersen) abuses an Italian migrant family on a Sydney ferry. Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) watches in discomfort.
A drunken Anglo-Australian (Keith Petersen) abuses an Italian migrant family on a Sydney ferry. Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) watches in discomfort.
- NFSA IDXESHE8SW
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Duration1 hr, 52 mins
- GenresMulticultural, Comedy
- Year1996
- DirectorMichael PowellProducerMichael PowellScreenplayRichard Imrie (AKA Emeric Pressburger)Based on the novel byNino Culotta (AKA John O’Grady)CastAlida Chelli, Walter Chiari, Slim deGrey, Ed Devereaux, Clare Dunne, Charles Little, John Meillon (AKA John Mellion) and Chips Rafferty
by Paul Byrnes
The scene is nicely balanced between slapstick comedy and harsh truth, laced with irony. Migrants in the 1950s and ’60s in Australia were often subjected to torrents of abuse such as these. Powell lets the scene run until it’s not remotely funny, even allowing compassion for the drunkard.
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