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Strikebound is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Richard Lowenstein with Chris Haywood

Strikebound (1984)

Strikebound
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Length 1h41
Directed by
OriginAustralie
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating66% 3.326863.326863.326863.326863.32686

Strikebound is a 1984 Australian film directed by Richard Lowenstein and based on the Wendy Lowenstein novel Dead Men Don't Dig Coal. The film got several AFI Award nominations and won in the Best Achievement in Production Design category.

Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.

Actors

Chris Haywood

(Wattie Doig)Carol Burns

(Agnes Doig)Hugh Keays-Byrne

(Idris Williams)John Howard

(Bashed Scab)Anthony Hawkins

(Police Sergeant)Reg Evans
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