1977 | Australia | Fiction

The Last Wave

  • English 106 mins
  • Director | Peter Weir
  • Writer | Peter Weir, Tony Morphett, Petru Popescu
  • Producer | Hal McElroy, James McElroy

STATUS: Released

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Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes his own involvement with the aborigines…and their prophecies.

Mysticism Apocalypse Indigenous Surrealism Mystery
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The Criterion Collection
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