Self
The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural history, and how it is today.
Writer
In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
Writer
In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
Myra
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
Pat Carmichael
1950년대 호주에 사는 셀리아는 죽은 할머니를 통한 주술적인 세계에 대한 믿음과 숲 속에 사는 악마 호비야즈에 대한 상상을 갖고 있는 9세 소녀다. 셀리아는 사회주의자라는 이유로 옆집 가족과 어울리지 못하게 하면서도 옆집 여인을 유혹하는 아버지와 자신의 사랑하는 토끼를 강탈해간 경찰관을 죽이기 위한 의식을 치룬다. 경찰관이 빈 집에 들른 날 그를 호비야즈로 생각한 셀리아는 경찰관을 총으로 쏘고..
Naomi Mendellsohn
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
In a future time when middle-class, Stepford-type suburbanites have triumphed over individualists and non-conformists and made them prisoner, two vanquished but not defeated non-conformists carry on the fight as best they can.