Joh: Last King of Queensland

(2025)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 96 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2025

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: Australia

Director: Kriv Stenders

Cast: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Matthew Condon, Bob Katter, Ричард Роксбург, Lindy Morrison, Ed Kuepper, John Howard, David Littleproud

Plot

Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen reigned over Queensland for 19 tumultuous years (1968–1987). Hugely popular, he presided over enormous growth, but corruption raged under his tenure, as did electoral manipulation and often violent suppression of dissent. This film tells Joh’s story through rare archival footage and revelatory interviews, exploring a life shaped by a hard yakka, god-fearing upbringing on his family’s farm. Trump’s spectre is evoked in Joh’s famously mangled and meandering way of speaking – brilliantly dramatised by Richard Roxburgh – alongside his unyielding execution of power and the desperate denial of his final days in office.