Van Diemen's Land (2009)

Directors

Jonathan Auf Der Heide

Cast

Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft, Thomas M. Wright

The story

The film takes place in 1822 in Tasmania and is loosely based on a true story. A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, as Tasmania was then known (until 1856), escape into the wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east. Their enthusiasm and bravado soon give way to hunger, which saps their strength and causes them to despair.

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