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Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection
My Brilliant Career (1979)
A new 35mm print of feature and trailer are now available
Courtesy of Margaret Fink, Kodak (Australasia) and Atlab Australia
National Film and Sound Archive National Collection
Title Number 6989
Classification: G rating
Synopsis
Eleanor Whitcombe's script is based on Miles Franklin's turn-of-the-century classic novel, 'My Brilliant Career'. It is the story of Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis), a sensitive, passionate young woman with great hopes for a career as a writer. She is offered the chance to escape her outback station home to stay with relatives in country New South Wales where her cultural leanings are fostered. When she meets the wealthy and handsome, Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), Sybylla struggles with the difficult decision between love and marriage, ambition and independence.
Background
My Brilliant Career won Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Production Design and Best Achievement in Costume Design at the 1979 Australian Film Institute Awards.
Director
Gillian Armstrong
Year of Production 1979
Duration 100 minutes
Format 35mm, (1:1,85) Colour
Soundtrack: Mono, remastered to Dolby® Digital
Production Company
NSW Film Corporation/GUO Film Distributors/Margaret Fink Films
Producer
Margaret Fink
Associate Producer
Jane Scott
Screenplay
Eleanor Witcombe from the novel by Miles Franklin
Director of Photography
Don McAlpine
Production Design
Luciana Arrighi
Costume Design
Anna Senior
Editor
Nicholas Beauman
Sound Recordist
Don Connolly
Composer
Nathan Waks
Cast
Judy Davis (Sybylla Melvyn)
Sam Neill (Harry Beecham)
Wendy Huges (Aunt Helen)
Robert Grubb (Frank Hawden)
Max Cullen (Mr McSwat)
Aileen Britton (Grandma Bossier)
Peter Whitford (Uncle Julius)
Patricia Kennedy (Aunt Gussie)
Alan Hopgood (Father)
Julia Blake (Mother)
David Franklin (Horace)
Marion Shad (Gertie)
Arron Wood (Standley)
Sue Davies (Aurora)
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