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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Nirvana Street Murder
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Released the same year as Death in Brunswick, with which it is often compared, Nirvana Street Murder is a tragi-comedy which similarly deals with the issues of multi-cultural relationships, inner-city life, romance and being on the wrong side of the law.

The narrative follows Luke and Boady O'Hagan, brothers who live together in a seedy section of Melbourne. While in all respects a model citizen, Luke's clandestine romance with a Greek-Australian teacher is seemingly his only act of defiance. Her conservative and traditional parents would be horrified to know that she was seriously considering marriage to a non-Greek. Boady, on the other hand, deals in drugs and likes to live on the edge. When one of his deals goes wrong, all three of them, along with Boady's pregnant girlfriend, are forced into hiding.

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First known date: 1991

Works about this Work

Engendering the Greek : The Shifting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema F. Freiberg , Joy Damousi , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 211-222)
An exploration of Greek / Greek-Australian identity in Australian cinema.
Melbourne Style in Action Drama 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 4 April 1992; (p. 8)

— Review of Nirvana Street Murder Aleksi Vellis , 1991 single work film/TV
Looking for a New Project to Beat Nirvana Mike Daly , 1992 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 21 February 1992; (p. 12)
Out of the Past Hunter Cordaiy , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , June no. 32 1991; (p. 17)

— Review of Nirvana Street Murder Aleksi Vellis , 1991 single work film/TV
Out of the Past Hunter Cordaiy , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , June no. 32 1991; (p. 17)

— Review of Nirvana Street Murder Aleksi Vellis , 1991 single work film/TV
Melbourne Style in Action Drama 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 4 April 1992; (p. 8)

— Review of Nirvana Street Murder Aleksi Vellis , 1991 single work film/TV
Looking for a New Project to Beat Nirvana Mike Daly , 1992 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 21 February 1992; (p. 12)
Engendering the Greek : The Shifting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema F. Freiberg , Joy Damousi , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 211-222)
An exploration of Greek / Greek-Australian identity in Australian cinema.
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