Long Walk Home
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Long Walk Home |
| Original title | Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language |
English , Aboriginal dialect |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Phillip Noyce |
| script | Christine Olsen |
| production | Phillip Noyce, John Winter, Christine Olsen |
| music | Peter Gabriel |
| camera | Christopher Doyle |
| cut |
Veronika Jenet , John Scott |
| occupation | |
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Long Walk Home (original title: Rabbit-Proof Fence ; German alternative TV title: The long way home ) is a film drama from 2002 based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington . The multi-award-winning film by the Australian director Phillip Noyce describes the escape of two sisters and their cousin from a state school and their subsequent strenuous hike along the Rabbit-Proof Fence for weeks .
action
The two sisters Molly and Daisy Craig are so-called mixed race children - their mother is an Aboriginal of the Martu Aboriginal tribe , their fathers are white migrant workers. They live in Jigalong , are forcibly separated from their mother in 1931 and taken together with their cousin Gracie Fields to a correctional facility near Perth , some 2,000 miles from Jigalong. Responsible for this is the Chief Protector of Aborigines A. O. Neville , the West Australian head of the Aboriginal Affairs Department. He is pursuing the goal prescribed by law to be able to better train Aboriginal children and mixed race to become domestic servants and farm helpers for the “white ruling class” by alienating them from their roots. But shortly after arriving at the home, the three girls flee.
An escape begins, which leads the girls to the so-called rabbit fence. Since Jigalong is near this fence, they follow him. On the way they meet friendly but also unpleasant people, both white and Aborigines. Moodoo is now looking for the girls. He is an Aboriginal whose daughter also lives in the reform home. Since he would otherwise no longer be able to see his daughter, he works as a tracker for Neville and has the assignment to hunt runaways. On top of that, Neville turned on the police. But Molly, the oldest of the trio, can skilfully cover up all traces. This is how the girls manage to escape their persecutors again and again.
From his desk, Neville lets the rumor spread that Gracie's mother is in another town by now. When the girls find out about it, Gracie wants to go there and finally makes her way to the nearest train station all by herself, to take the train from there. Molly and Daisy continue following the fence at first, but soon turn around to look for Gracie. They catch up with her, but then have to watch her cousin being picked up by the police and taken away. The escape of the two sisters continues and finally ends after nine weeks in their hometown Jigalong, where Molly and Daisy can finally embrace their mother and grandmother again. Neville is losing all along the line and has a scandal on his neck. The real Molly Craig and Daisy Craig Kadibill have the final say.
background
The film, which cost about six million US dollars, is based on the real-life experience of Molly Craig, the mother of Doris Pilkington Garimara . Like her mother, Doris was placed in a correctional facility at the age of four. This procedure was common under the so-called General Child Welfare Law (English for " General Child Welfare Law ") from 1910 to 1976 in Australia and became an epitome of racism against Australia's natives under the term stolen generations . According to estimates by the Commission for Human Rights and Equality (HREOC) from 1997, a total of around 100,000 Aboriginal children and mixed race were affected. This commission even assumes that the current sad state of affairs of the entire Aboriginal people (uprooting, alcoholism, self-destruction, etc.) can be traced back to these acts of violence by the European immigrants and thus ultimately imputes genocide against the indigenous people to the “white rulers of Australia” . A recommendation by HREOC to officially apologize to the victims and their families was only followed in February 2008 by the Australian government.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film was produced and composed by Peter Gabriel (two songs were composed in collaboration with Richard Evans and David Rhodes). The music was also released as an album under the title Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence , it is the third soundtrack album and the British musician's twelfth studio album. Gabriel played several instruments himself, but also worked with numerous guest musicians. He used elements of traditional Aboriginal music for the compositions .
reception
Long Walk Home premiered in Australia on February 4, 2002. The film was released in Australian theaters on February 21, 2002. Cinema releases followed in numerous other countries. The overall box office is 16,180,000 US dollars . In Germany, where it started on May 29, 2003, the film was seen 224,874 times.
Most of the critics, such as the American Roger Ebert , received the film largely positively. However, a few attested the film to be bored and predictable. film-dienst wrote in the 11/2003 issue: “A chapter in Australian history that was long hushed up and kept secret, although the kidnappings organized by the authorities lasted until 1970, as the basis for a committed, politically explosive film that replaces the emotional hardness with a poetic Basic tenor, the omission of hardships and mythological exaggeration mitigates. "
Awards
The film won an audience award at the Valladolid Film Festival 2002, the Aspen Film Festival 2002, the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002, the Durban International Film Festival 2002 and the Leeds International Film Festival 2002. At the São Paulo International Film Festival it also received the Audience Award, but here for Best Foreign Film . He received the People's Choice Award at the Denver International Film Festival . The film also took part in the competition at the Camerimage Polish film festival , which honors the best cameramen in each case, but Christopher Doyle was beaten by competitors Edi and Road to Perdition .
Long Walk Home was nominated ten times at the AFI Awards of the Australian Film Institute in 2002 and won in the categories of Best Picture , Best Music and Best Sound . He received further nominations in the categories of Best Director , Best Editing , Best Production Design , Best Costumes , Best Cinematography , Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor ( David Gulpilil ). The film achieved similar success at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards , where it won six nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay . Everlyn Sampi , who played Molly , was nominated for Best Actress .
The National Board of Review recognized Phillip Noyce for Best Director . The soundtrack ( Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence ) composed by Peter Gabriel was nominated for the Golden Globe in the Best Music category. Everlyn Sampi and Tianna Sansbury received nominations in the performing categories at the Young Artist Awards .
Web links
- Long Walk Home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Long Walk Home at prisma.de
- Long Walk Home at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Arsenal Filmverleih film website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Long Walk Home . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 028 K).
- ↑ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence ( English ) allmusic. Retrieved February 22, 2013.