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Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross 's 1978 play of the same name. [4] [5] [6] The film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton —one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history.
3 de jul. de 1980 · Breaker Morant: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown. Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Consejo de guerra es una película dirigida por Bruce Beresford con Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown .... Año: 1980. Título original: Breaker Morant. Sinopsis: Sudáfrica, 1901.
Synopsis In South Africa during the Second Boer War, Australian Army Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald)...
Breaker Morant. Summaries. Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners.
23 de sept. de 2015 · Witton screams, to which Morant shouts back, “We’re scapegoats, George . . . scapegoats for the bloody Empire!”. A high point of the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s and early ’80s, Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant is a magnificent dramatization of one of the most controversial episodes in Australian colonial history.
Breaker Morant: Scapegoats of Empire Bruce Beresford draws on a controversial episode of Australian colonial history from 1901 to create an electrifying drama that questions the moral certitude of war.
