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Children Of The Revolution (1996 Film)
''Children of the Revolution'' is a 1996 Australian black comedy film, depicting Joseph Stalin and his son's somewhat deterministic path into The Revolution in modern-day Australia. It stars Richard Roxburgh Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, and F. Murray Abraham as Joseph Stalin. Plot Joan is a young Australian communist who goes to the Soviet Union as part of a work study program in the 1950s. There she catches the eye of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the two sleep together just before Stalin dies. Returning to Australia, Joan discovers she is pregnant and gives birth to Stalin's love child, whom she names Joe. Her son (who does not know who his father is) has a troubled upbringing, rebelling against both his mother's left wing politics and Australian society in general. He spends time in jail where he learns about Stalin's crimes from a fellow inmate. Upon release, he marries Anna, a police officer who had arrested him. She is the child of Latvian refugees who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Duncan (director)
Peter Duncan (born 8 September 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His 1999 film '' Passion'' was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival The 21st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 29 July 1999. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Japanese film ''Will to Live'' directed by Kaneto Shindo. Jury * Fernando Solanas (Argentina – President of the Jury) * Flo .... Selected filmography * '' Children of the Revolution'' (1996) * '' A Little Bit of Soul'' (1998) * '' Passion'' (1999) * '' Hell Has Harbour Views'' (2005) * '' Unfinished Sky'' (2007) * '' Rake'' (2010-2018) Australian TV series * '' Operation Buffalo'' (2020) Australian TV mini-series References External links * 1964 births Living people Australian film directors Australian screenwriters People from Sydney {{Australia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Purge
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the party and the state; the purges were also designed to remove the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky as well as other prominent political rivals within the party. It occurred from August 1936 to March 1938. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 a power vacuum opened in the Communist Party. Various established figures in Lenin's government attempted to succeed him. Joseph Stalin, the party's General Secretary, outmaneuvered political opponents and ultimately gained control of the Communist Party by 1928. Initially, Stalin's leadership was widely accepted; his main political adversary Trotsky was forced into exile in 1929, and the doctrine of "socialism in one country" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Billing
Roy Harwood Billing (born 1947) is a New Zealand television actor, now based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He was brought up in Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand. Billing spent almost three decades living and working in Australia. He became widely known for his role as organised-crime boss “Aussie Bob” Trimbole in the TV series Underbelly. Career In 1965 Billing formed a psychedelic rock band called The Ministry of Fog. After a short period at university doing a science degree, he dropped out and got a job at Inland Revenue. After three years he moved into advertising, joining Auckland agencies Jacka Brown and later, McCann Erickson. “For a long time, I was stuck in accounts when I really wanted to be in creative.” After hobby stints in amateur theatre and Theatre Corporate, founding director Raymond Hawthorne offered him a job with a state theatre program, Theatre in Education, working with high schools throughout the North Island. Billing left advertising to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Hopkins (actor)
Harold Douglas Hopkins (6 March 194411 December 2011) was an Australian film and television actor. Early life Hopkins was born in 1944 in Toowoomba, Queensland. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School as a day boy in 1958 and 1959. During the 1960s, he worked as an apprentice carpenter, and was exposed to asbestos fibres without protective masks or clothing. He and his twin brother John enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, with Harold graduating in 1967. Harold Hopkins married twice. His second marriage was to Sue Collie, an actress he met in Melbourne in 1977, while starring in the original stage production of David Williamson's '' The Club'' at the MTC. Career Hopkins appeared in 16 films over the course of his career, including classic Australian films '' Don's Party'', ''The Picture Show Man'' and ''Gallipoli''. He was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award in 1981 for his supporting role in '' The Club''. Hopkins also appeared in mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Abbott (comedian)
Stephen Abbott (born 24 March 1956, in Broken Hill, New South Wales) is an Australian comedian and author, also known under the comedic moniker of The Sandman or occasionally Sandy. He was a member of the band The Castanet Club with others such as Mikey Robins, Angela Moore and Maynard. Bibliography * * * ''Observations from a Moving Vehicle'' (1998) ABC Books * ''Big Man's World '' (1998) with Tony Squires and Mikey Robins * ''Pleasant Avenue'' (1999) ABC Books * ''204 Bell Street'' (2000) * ''Sandman's Uncertain Years'' (2001) * ''Diary of a Bus Clown'' (2002) * Filmography * '' The Sideshow'' with Paul McDermott (2007) TV Series * ''Under The Grandstand'' (2005) TV-Series during Ashes in England * ''Sandman in Siberia'' (2005) Filmed as a documentary, The Sandman (Steve Abbott) and his mother (Evelyn Abbott) return to their ancestral home in Siberia, taking photos and greetings from the Efremoff family in Australia in an attempt to reunite with long lost cousins (app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Watkins
Dennis Watkins (born September 9, 1978) is an American magician, mentalist, and actor, based in Chicago, Illinois. Watkins specializes in sleight of hand, walking on broken glass, swallowing razor blades, and a card trick known as the Balloon Trick, where he crawls inside a 7-foot wide balloon. He has performed across the United States, and his public show, ''The Magic Parlour'', played at Chicago's Palmer House Hilton Hotel since New Year's Eve, 2011 until fall 2023, when it relocated to Petterino's on October 5, 2023. https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/the-magic-parlour/ Biography Dennis Watkins was born in Dallas, TX. He is the second in a family of four brothers. His grandfather, Ed Watkins, was a local magician who worked as the lead demonstrator at a storefront magic shop called Douglas Magicland in Dallas for 30 years. Around age 7, Watkins began studying sleight-of-hand under the instruction of his grandfather, Ed. In 2001, Watkins graduated from SMU Meadows Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Livingston
Paul James Livingston (born March 1956), popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including ''Good News Week'', '' The Sandman and Flacco Special'', ''The Big Gig'', ''DAAS Kapital'', '' The Money or the Gun'', '' The Fat'' and '' The Sideshow''. He also was on ''Triple J Breakfast'' from 1994 to 1997, '' Doom Runners'' (1997), and is on ABC Radio National. He has also acted on stage and in film. He was joint winner of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award in 1996 for outstanding achievement in the performing arts in Australia. Livingston also wrote the play ''Emma's Nose'' about the relationship of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess and their patient Emma Eckstein. Livingston also starred in '' The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey'' by Vincent Ward. Livingston has toured Australia and internationally and appeared at festivals in Edinburgh and Montreal. In 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Mitchell
Heather Lee Mitchell (born 1958) is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show '' Spellbinder''. Career Television Mitchell is well known for her performance as Ashka in the Australian/Polish co-productions of '' Spellbinder'' (1995), and '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'' (1997). The series was a popular children's fantasy program first broadcast in 1995. Other television series include: the miniseries ''Bodyline'' (1984), ''Land of Hope'' (1986), ''Embassy'' (1992) and ''A Country Practice''. In 1998, she starred in the miniseries drama '' The Day of the Roses,'' in which she played a victim of the 1977 Granville rail disaster. She has also appeared in episodes of ''Five Mile Creek'' (1984), ''Rake'' (2010), ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' (2013), and ''Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Haddrick
Ronald Norman Haddrick (9 April 1929 – 11 February 2020) was an Australian actor, cricketer, narrator and presenter. In 2012, he received the Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement Award for his long and distinguished career in media, spanning some seventy years both locally and also in Britain. He appeared in many Shakespeare roles and often performed with theatre actress Ruth Cracknell. At the time Australian playwright David Williamson said, "Ron Haddrick was chosen for two reasons. He’s a great actor, definitely one of the greatest of his generation, and also a great human being who has enriched the lives of countless Australians through his acting. He has also enriched the lives of many of us who work in the theatre because of his dedication and palpable decency." Actor John Bell in presenting the award said his "career has been extraordinary ... he is undoubtedly one of the leading lights in the Australian acting industry and he is much loved, admired and respected, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowan Woods
Rowan Woods (born 1959) is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Career Film Woods directed '' The Boys'' in 1998 and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction. The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, '' Little Fish'' was released in September 2005 starring Cate Blanchett. His latest film, '' Fragments'' was released in 2009, and received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics. Television He has directed episodes of television series including ''Farscape'', '' Fireflies'', '' Police Rescue'', and '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand''. In 2012, he directed The Straits and some episodes of Rake between 2012 and 2016. In 2016, he directed the acclaimed The Kettering Incident, and also Nowhere Boys. In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Menglet
Alex Menglet, born ''Alexei Menglet'' in Moscow USSR in 1956, is an actor who has found success working in Australia. Career Menglet is best known for his roles as chef Ray "Gay Ray" Proctor in the 1984 season of ''Prisoner'' and more recently as Zoran Baranoff in the SBS series ''Kick''. He has also appeared on Australian television series, ''Skyways'', ''The Sullivans'', ''Cop Shop'' and '' Carson's Law''.TV Week, 18 August 1984, p.86 His latest role was in the UK.TV mini-series ''False Witness''. He has also appeared in the films '' Sky Pirates'' (1986), '' The Still Point'' (1986), '' Holidays on the River Yarra'' (1991) and ''He Died with a Felafel in his Hand ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'' is a purportedly non-fiction autobiographical novel by Australian author John Birmingham about his experiences as a share housing tenant, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press (). The story consists ...'' (2001). Menglet also appeared as Joan Ferguson's father and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Press
Fiona Press is an Australian actress whose career has spanned over 30 years. Career Press was part of the original Australian cast of ''1984''. In 1991, she won both an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Silver Shell for Best Actress for her role in ''Waiting''. Her other film roles include '' Black Water'' and ''Disgrace''. On television, she has appeared in '' Doctor Doctor'', ''Upright Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's. The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down. They form three pairs ...'' and '' Diary of an Uber Driver''. She also played Hazel Murphy in the soap opera '' The Heights.'' Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Press, Fiona 20th-century births Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian television actresses Australian fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
