The Last Wave (1977)

Directors

Peter Weir

Cast

Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula, Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedrick Lalara, Morris Lalara, Peter Carroll, Athol Compton, Hedley Cullen, Michael Duffield, Wallas Eaton, Jo England, John Frawley, Jennifer De Greenlaw, Richard Henderson, Penny Leach, Merv Lillie, John Meagher, Guido Rametta, Malcolm Robertson, Greg Rowe, Katrina Sedgwick, Ingrid Weir

The story

The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s— a rural school in the desert with children playing, the main street of an Outback town, a traffic jam in the city— all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. These include heavy rainfall followed by unusually large chunks of hail breaking through the windows of the school injuring students, a frog infestation, and other anomalies. Only the local Aboriginal people seem to recognise the cosmological significance of these weather phenomena.

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