''Winter of Our Dreams'' is a 1981 Australian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...
directed by
John Duigan.
Judy Davis won the Best Actress in a Lead Role in the
AFI Awards for her performance in the film. The film was nominated in 6 other categories also. It was also entered into the
13th Moscow International Film Festival
The 13th Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; ab ...
where Judy Davis won the award for Best Actress.
Plot
Rob (
Bryan Brown), a bookshop owner, hears of the suicide of an old girlfriend Lisa (Margie McCrae). While investigating the case he meets Lou (Judy Davis), a prostitute and old friend of Lisa's.
Cast
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Judy Davis as Lou
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Bryan Brown as Rob
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Cathy Downes
Catherine Patricia Downes (born 1951) is a New Zealand theatre director, actor, dramaturg and playwright. Of Māori descent, she affiliates to Ngāi Tahu. Downes wrote a one-woman play ''The Case of Katherine Mansfield'', which she has perform ...
as Gretel
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Mercia Deane-Johns
Mercia Deane-Johns is an Australian actress of film, stage and television. She is also a writer, singer, and stand-up comedienne. She has played a wide array of characters since she was 12 years old and has appeared in many film roles and TV ser ...
as Angela
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Baz Luhrmann as Pete
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Peter Mochrie
Peter Mochrie (born 23 March 1959), is an Australian actor whose career spans over forty years in the industry, primarily featuring in television soap opera's, he has also worked in New Zealand, where he spent six years as Dr. Callum McKay in ...
as Tim
*Mervyn Drake as Mick
*Margie McCrae as Lisa Blaine
*Joy Hruby as Marge
*Kim Deacon as Michelle
Production
In the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called ''Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain'' about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was re used in ''Winter of Our Dreams''.
There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain.
Box office
''Winter of Our Dreams'' was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia,
''Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office''
/ref> which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars.
See also
*Cinema of Australia
The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of '' The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received internat ...
References
Further reading
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External links
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*''Winter of Our Dreams'' at th
Australian screen''Winter of Our Dreams''
at Oz Movies
1981 films
1981 drama films
Australian drama films
1980s English-language films
Films directed by John Duigan
1980s Australian films
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