Wokabaut Bilong Tonten
Wokabaut Bilong Tonten
1971
- NFSA IDj0y3pm08
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Year1971
A young man from a coastal village in Papua New Guinea searches for his missing brother-in-law after his wife dies. On his travels around the country, Tonten (Turuk Wabei) meets a Chimbu girl in the highlands and visits Port Moresby for the first time.
A Tok Pisin drama based on the emergence of Papua New Guinea as an independent nation, WOKABAUT BILONG TONTEN was the first feature film shot in Papua New Guinea with an all-Indigenous cast.
Produced for the Papua New Guinea Government by Film Australia. © National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
A young man from a coastal village in Papua New Guinea searches for his missing brother-in-law after his wife dies. On his travels around the country, Tonten (Turuk Wabei) meets a Chimbu girl in the highlands and visits Port Moresby for the first time.
A Tok Pisin drama based on the emergence of Papua New Guinea as an independent nation, WOKABAUT BILONG TONTEN was the first feature film shot in Papua New Guinea with an all-Indigenous cast.
Produced for the Papua New Guinea Government by Film Australia. © National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
- NFSA IDj0y3pm08
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Year1971
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