- 27A
- Alvin Purple
- Backroads
- Breaker Morant
- Buddies
- Cars That Ate Paris
- Devil's Playground
- Don's Party
- Greetings From Wollongong
- Killing of Angel Street
- Lonely Hearts
- Love Letters From Teralba Road
- Man From Hong Kong
- Man From Snowy River
- Money Movers
- My Brilliant Career
- Newsfront
- Night Cries
- Odd Angry Shot
- Palm Beach
- Picture Show Man
- Return Home
- Singer and the Dancer
- Stir
- Storm Boy
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- Sweetie
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- The Big Steal
- The Club
- The FJ Holden
- The Night The Prowler
- Walk into Paradise
- They're A Weird Mob
- We of the Never Never
- Wrong Side of the Road
- Crystal Voyager
- Morning of the Earth
- Journey Among Women
- The Getting of Wisdom
- Oz
- Pure Shit
- Crocodile Dundee
- Jedda
- Goodbye Paradise
- You Can't See 'Round Corners
- The Year My Voice Broke
- Petersen
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- Mad Dog Morgan
Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection
A new 35mm print of the feature film, THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE, is now available. Courtesy of Kennedy Miller and the sponsors, Kodak (Australasia) and Atlab Australia
NFSA National Collection Title number 141384
Leone Carmen (Freya) and Noah
Taylor (Danny)
THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE (1987)
Classification: M rating
Director: John Duigan
Year of Production: 1987
Duration: 105 minutes
Format: 35mm, (1:1,85) Colour. Mono optical soundtrack, remastered to Dolby® Digital.
Production Company: Kennedy Miller
Producer: Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell, Dr George Miller
Associate Producer: Barbara Gibbs
Screenplay: John Duigan
Director of Photography: Geoff Burton
Production Design: Roger Ford
Costume Design: Lyn Askew, Fiona Nicolls
Editor: Neil Thumpston
Sound Recordist: Ross Linton
Music: Christine Woodruff
Noah Taylor (Danny)
Cast: Noah Taylor (Danny), Leone Carmen (Freya), Ben Mendelsohn (Trevor), Graeme Blundell (Nils Olson), Lynette Curran (Anne Olson), Malcolm Robertson (Bruce Embling), Judi Farr (Sheila Embling), Tim Robertson (Bob Leishman), Bruce Spence (Jonah), Harold Hopkins (Tom Alcock), Anja Coleby (Gail Olson), Kylie Ostara (Alison), Kelly Dingwall (Barry), Dorothy St. Heaps (Mrs Keith), Emma Lyle (Lisa), Louise Birgan (Lyn), Mary Regan (Miss McColl), Matthew Ross (Malseed), Allan Penney (Martin), Queenie Ashton (Mrs O'Neil).
Noah Taylor (Danny), Loene
Carmen (Freya)
Synopsis
A coming-of-age drama set in country New South Wales in 1962. Danny is the awkward fifteen year-old in love with his childhood sweetheart, the slightly older Freya, who is attracted to a trouble-making Trevor. Through the course of the film Danny closely watches the relationship between Freya and Trevor quickly blossom. Though left behind, Danny is protective of Freya and later discovers that she is the daughter of a prostitute that died giving birth to her in the 'haunted house' on the hill.
Background
Won Best Film, Direction, Supporting Actor (Ben Mendelsohn) and Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Awards in 1987.
Preservation
The new print will be processed from the 35mm colour interdupe and the soundtrack will be remastered from the 24 tracks to Dolby SR Digital.
