A Fortunate Life

(1986)

★ 5 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1986

Runtime: 90 мин

Director: Marcus Cole, Henri Safran

Cast: Dorothy Allison, Dale Randall, Джон Лей, Anthony Richards, Benedict Sweeney, Dominic Sweeney, Pat Bishop, Paul Sonkkila, Jeffrey Rhoe, Maurie Ogden

Plot

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.