Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

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Thomas Keneally

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Olympic Glory
Writer
A documentary covering the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, filmed for IMAX presentations.
Список Шиндлера
Novel
Лента рассказывает реальную историю загадочного Оскара Шиндлера, члена нацистской партии, преуспевающего фабриканта, спасшего во время Второй мировой войны более тысячи ста евреев. Это триумф одного человека, не похожего на других, и драма тех, кто, благодаря ему, выжил в ужасный период человеческой истории.
Silver City
Writer
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.
Schindler
Technical Advisor
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
Gossip From The Forest
Writer
The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Cook
The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Novel
The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
The Devil's Playground
Father Marshall
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
Libido
Writer
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.