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Walkabout.

Walkabout. Cover title: Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout - Australia : Madman Entertainment, 2019. - 1 videodisc (DVD) (101 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.

Originally produced in 1971. "A film by Nicolas Roeg"--Container. "A boy and a girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier"--Container. Based on the novel by James Vance Marshall.

Produced by Si Litvinoff ; directed and photographed by Nicolas Roeg. Produced by Si Litvinoff ; directed and photographed by Nicolas Roeg.

Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil.

This program chronicles the physical, spiritual, and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. Joining an Aboriginal on his walkabout - a tribal initiation into manhood - these modern children pass from innocence into experience as they are thrust from the comforts of civilisation into the savagery of the natural world.

Rating: M.


DVD ; NTSC ; Region 4 ; Dolby audio 2.0 mono ; 1.77:1, 16:9 widescreen.


In English, no subtitles.

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Marshall, James Vance, 1924- --Drama.
Marshall, James Vance, 1924- --Film adaptations.


Brothers and sisters--Australia--Drama.
Abandoned children--Australia--Drama.
Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land--Drama.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land--Drama.
Initiation rites--Drama.
Wilderness survival--Australia--Drama.
Motion pictures, Australian.
Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--Drama.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Brothers and sisters--Drama.
Feature films--Australia.
Film adaptations--Australia.
Aboriginal Australians--Rites and ceremonies--Drama.


Ramingining (N.T.)--Drama.
Northern Territory--Drama.


Action and adventure films
Feature films
Fiction films
Drama.
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