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The Nightingale (2018)

The Nightingale (2018)

Drama Thriller Western

Her song will not be silenced.

Release Date: 2018, September 23
Directors: Jennifer Kent
Countries: Australia, Canada, United States of America
Production: Made Up Stories, Screen Australia, Screen Tasmania, South Australian Film Corporation, Bron Studios, FilmNation Entertainment, Causeway Films
Cast: Michael Sheasby, Harry Greenwood, James O'Connell, Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Eloise Winestock, Nathaniel Dean, Ben McIvor, Matthew Whittet, Anthony Phelan, Matthew Sunderland

Overview:

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Keywords:

woman director murder revenge brutality 19th century racial prejudice australia rape tasmania colonization rape and revenge australian aboriginal aborigine