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form y separately published work icon The Last Wave single work   film/TV   horror   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 The Last Wave
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
form y separately published work icon The Last Wave Petru Popescu , Peter Weir , Tony Morphett , ( dir. Peter Weir ) Australia : McElroy and McElroy Ayr Productions , 1977 Z971052 1977 single work film/TV horror fantasy (taught in 1 units)

Based on an original idea by Peter Weir, The Last Wave concerns a young Sydney lawyer who, while defending four Aboriginal men against a murder charge, becomes troubled by dreams. He soon begins to feel the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilisation. A series of apparently random occurences assume a disturbing pattern and the city becomes a facade for a place of ancient ritual.

 		Australian Screen Griffith University 2009 (Semester 2)
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