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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Children of the Revolution
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Film Details - Rev Kids , 1996

Producers:

Tristram Miall.

Production Companies:

Rev Kids.
Distributed by Beyond Films.

Finance Organisations:

Australian Film Finance Corporation.

Director of Photography:

Martin McGrath.

Editors:

Simon Martin.

Production Designers:

Roger Ford.

Music:

Nigel Westlake.

Cast:

Judy Davis (Joan), Sam Neill (Nine), F. Murray Abraham (Stalin), Richard Roxburgh (Joe), Rachel Griffiths (Anna), Geoffrey Rush (Welch), Russell Kiefel (Barry Rogers), John Gaden (Professor C.W. 'Wilf' Wilke), Ben McIvor (Joe: 8 Years), Marshall Napier (Brendan Shaw), Ken Radley (Bernard Shaw), Fiona Press (Mavis Craig), Alex Menglet (Yuri Nikolayev), and Rowan Woods (Colonel Slansky).

Release Dates:

26 December 1996 (Australia).

Location:

  • Filmed in Sydney, Australia (including Exhibition Hall, Royal Agricultural Showground).

Awards:

  • AFI Award (Best Achievement in Costume Design), Australian Film Institute, 1996.
  • AFI Award (Best Actress in a Lead Role), Australian Film Institute, 1996.
  • AFI Award (Best Achievement in Production Design), Australian Film Institute, 1996.
  • Audience Award, Canberra Short Film Festival, 1996.
  • FCCA Award (Best Actress: Female), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 1997.
  • FCCA (Best Screenplay: Original), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 1997.
Subjects:
  • 1950s
  • 1990s
Settings:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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