Gallipoli Script

Script by:David Williamson (Screenplay), Ernest Raymond (Novel), Peter Weir (Story)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1981

Plot:As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
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The Year of Living Dangerously Script

Script by:Peter Weir (Screenplay), C.J. Koch (Screenplay), David Williamson (Screenplay), C.J. Koch (Novel)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1982

Plot:Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and also falls in love with a British national.
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