Breaker Morant (1980)

Directors

Bruce Beresford

Cast

Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jack Thompson, John Waters

The story

In 1902, three Australian soldiers are tried for war crimes committed during the Second Boer War in South Africa. Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton; all officers of the elite Bushveldt Carbineers, are charged with the murder of one Boer prisoner (Floris Visser), the subsequent murders of six more; Morant and Handcock are accused of the sniper-style death of a German missionary, the Rev. Hesse.

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