Gallipoli
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“…has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.”—New York Times
One of Australia’s greatest films, this achingly beautiful WWI epic shot Mel Gibson to international stardom. Gibson and Mark Lee play a pair of runners, whose initial competitiveness gives way to a close friendship. They cross a desert on foot to Perth, where they enlist in the Australian forces fighting in World War I. Director Peter Weir captures the chaos of war with his trademark dreamlike style, right down to the film’s famous, devastating final freeze-frame.
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Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to Turkey, where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli and depicts the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.
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