Winter of Our Dreams

1981 Australian film
  • 31 July 1981 (1981-07-31)
Running time
89 minutesCountryAustraliaLanguageEnglishBudgetAU$320,000[1]Box office$959,000 (Australia)

Winter of Our Dreams is a 1981 Australian drama film directed by John Duigan. Judy Davis won the Best Actress in a Lead Role in the AFI Awards for her performance in the film. The film was nominated in 6 other categories also.[2] It was also entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where Judy Davis won the award for Best Actress.[3]

Plot

Rob (Bryan Brown), a bookshop owner, hears of the suicide of an old girlfriend Lisa (Margie McCrae). While investigating the case he meets Lou (Judy Davis), a prostitute and old friend of Lisa's.

Cast

  • Judy Davis as Lou
  • Bryan Brown as Rob
  • Cathy Downes as Gretel
  • Mercia Deane-Johns as Angela
  • Baz Luhrmann as Pete
  • Peter Mochrie as Tim
  • Mervyn Drake as Mick
  • Margie McCrae as Lisa Blaine
  • Joy Hruby as Marge
  • Kim Deacon as Michelle
  • Gia Carides

Production

In the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was used in Winter of Our Dreams.[1]

There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain.[1]

Box office

Winter of Our Dreams was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia,[4] which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars.

See also

  • Cinema of Australia

References

  1. ^ a b c David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p138
  2. ^ IMDb – awards
  3. ^ "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ^ Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office

Further reading

  • Murray, Scott, ed. (1994). Australian Cinema. St.Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin/AFC. p. 312. ISBN 1-86373-311-6.

External links

  • Winter of Our Dreams at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Winter of Our Dreams at the Australian screen
  • Winter of Our Dreams at Oz Movies
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Films directed by John Duigan
  • The Firm Man (1975)
  • The Trespassers (1976)
  • Mouth to Mouth (1978)
  • Dimboola (1979)
  • Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
  • Far East (1982)
  • One Night Stand (1984)
  • The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
  • Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (1988)
  • Romero (1989)
  • Flirting (1991)
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
  • Sirens (1994)
  • The Journey of August King (1995)
  • The Leading Man (1996)
  • Lawn Dogs (1997)
  • Molly (1999)
  • Paranoid (2000)
  • The Parole Officer (2001)
  • Head in the Clouds (2004)
  • Careless Love (2012)


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