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Henri Safran
Henri Safran (born 7 October 1932) is a Paris-born director who worked extensively in Australia. He worked in French television, then in Britain, before moving to Australia in 1960 to work with the ABC. He became an Australian citizen in 1963 but returned to England in 1966 to work on British television. He returned to Australia again in the mid-1970s.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 306.Margaret Smith, "Henri Safran talks about Norman Loves Rose", ''Cinema Papers'', October 1982 p409 -412 Select credits *''Jenny'' (1962) (TV movie) *''A Season in Hell'' (1964) (TV movie) *''A Sound of Trumpets'' (1964) (TV movie) *'' Storm Boy'' (1976) *'' Listen to the Lion'' (1977) *''Golden Soak'' (1979) (mini-series) *''Norman Loves Rose'' (1982) *''Bush Christmas'' (1983) *''The Edge of Power'' (1987) *''The Rogue Stallion ''The Rogue Stallion'' is a 1990 Australian television fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny (1962 Film)
''Jenny'' is a 1962 Australian TV drama. Plot Jenny is a 16-year-old girl whose father Roger, an actor, and mother Margaret, a television personality, have been separated for 15 months. Jenny has a boyfriend, Michael, a law student. Margaret tells Jenny she has met a Melbourne businessman, Rex Porter, that she wants to marry. This sends Jenny out looking for her father and boyfriend. She winds up at a party at Kings Cross being held by beatniks. She gets a cab driver to take her to The Gap where she intends on committing suicide. However the cab driver talks her out of it and takes Jenny home to her father. Roger returns and he and Margaret realise how troubled Jenny is. They decide to try again for her sake. Cast *Carolyn Keely as Jenny *Joan Winchester as Margaret Playford *James Condon as Roger Playford * Grant Taylor as Rex Porter *David Yorston as Michael *Lex Mitchell as the beatnik *Tony Carere, Joan Morrow and Kerry Collins as beatniks ''Hunger of a Girl'' The play a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Season In Hell (TV Movie)
"A Season in Hell" is a 1964 Australian TV movie broadcast on the ABC which originally aired as an episode of ''Wednesday Theatre''. It was directed by Henri Safran from a script by Patricia Hooker and was shot at the ABC's Gore Hill Studios in Sydney. "A Season in Hell" aired on 1 April 1964 in Sydney, on 22 April 1964 in Brisbane, and on 29 April 1964 in Melbourne. It was arguably the first depiction of a gay relationship in Australian TV drama. Plot The plot deals with the relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (Alan Bickford) and Paul Verlaine (Alistair Duncan). Rimbaud arrives in Paris age 16 and in three years shocks and revolts all who knows him. His only friend and confidante is Verlaine. Cast *Alan Bickford as Arthur Rimbaud *Alistair Duncan as Paul Verlaine *Marion Johns as Madam Verlaine, Verlaine's mother *Anne Haddy as Mathilde Verlaine *Betty Dyson as Madame Matue de Falureville, Mathilde's mother *Eve Hardwicke as Rimbaud's mother, Mme Rimbaud *Richard Davies as Fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sound Of Trumpets
''A Sound of Trumpets'' is a 1964 Australian drama directed by Henri Safran. Premise A family want to adopt a refugee boy. Cast *Nigel Lovell * Henry Gilbert *Peter Wagner *Mark McManus * Philippa Baker * Janice Dinnen Reception ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' criticised the "excessive detail" and called it "dour, plodding, earnest" but said it "explored its chosen situation thoroughly enough to illuminate not so much a social problem as the complex interdependence of ordinary family life." The ''Bulletin'' said "this banal story, of an insufferable do-gooder and his equally insufferable family of long-suffering stereotypes faced with practising what they preach in the adoption of a refugee boy, rubbed its second-hand humanity in the audience's face with all the subtlety of Sonny Liston wielding a nine-pound hammer. Only Janice Dinnen’s remarkably mature performance as the eldest daughter and Ethel Gabriel’s complaining grandmother achieved any semblance of sympathy or cred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Boy (1976 Film)
''Storm Boy'' is a 1976 Australian drama film based on the 1964 book of the same name by Colin Thiele, about a lonely boy and his pet pelicans living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. It was the third feature film made by the South Australian Film Corporation, and is a highlight of the New Wave of Australian Cinema from the 1970s. The film was financed by SAFC, Seven Network and the Australian Film Commission. Plot Mike (Greg Rowe) is a lonely young boy wandering through the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong, near the mouth of the Murray River. He and his reclusive father 'Hide Away' Tom (Peter Cummins) live in the isolated sand dunes facing the Southern Ocean. In search of friendship, Mike encounters another recluse in the wilderness, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), an Aboriginal man estranged from his tribal people. Fingerbone names Mike "Storm Boy" and enlists the child's help caring for three orphaned pelican chicks. Eventually, Mike's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen To The Lion (film)
''Listen to the Lion'' is a 1977 short feature from Australia. Plot A Sydney derelict lies drunk in an alley and is beaten up by thugs. A friend helps him find refuge in a night shelter. As he lies dying he has a vision of himself flying about the room. The man dies and after the cremation of his corpse, his spirit returns to the footpath. Cast *Wyn Roberts as Hunter *Barry Lovett as one legged man *Syd Heylen as Hunter's friend *John Derum as evangelist Production The film was written by Robert Hill, a former journalist who spent months researching the life of homeless people in Sydney. A substantial portion of the budget was provided by the General Production Fund of the Australian Film Commission. Reception The film won Greater Union Award for Best Fiction Film at the 1977 Sydney Film Festival and the Robert Mamoulian Award for the most distinguished Australian short film. Although shot before '' Storm Boy'' (1976), also directed by Henri Safran Henri Safran (born 7 Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Soak
''Golden Soak'' is a 1979 Australian-British mini series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200 Cast * Ray Barrett - Alec Hamilton * Elizabeth Alexander - Janet Garrety * Bill Hunter - Chris Culpin * Christiane Kruger - Rosa Hamilton * David Cameron - Johnny Culpin * Ruth Cracknell - Prophesy References External links''Golden Soak''at IMDb''Golden Soak''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... 1970s Australian television miniseries 1979 Australian television series debuts Films directed by Henri Safran English-language television shows 1979 Australian television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Loves Rose
''Norman Loves Rose'' is a 1982 Australian comedy film.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p330 Plot summary A 13-year-old Jewish boy (Norman) develops an obsession for his older brother's wife (Rose), who is under parental pressure to start a family. The hapless dentist brother is not up to the job, and ditsy Rose encourages Norman's infatuation. While it is never made explicit how it came about, Rose eventually does become pregnant, to the satisfaction of the various interested parties. Cast *Carol Kane as Rose *Tony Owen as Norman *Myra De Groot as Mother *David Downer as Michael *Barry Otto as Charles *Sandy Gore as Maureen *Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was a British actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ''Educatin ... as Morris * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Christmas
''Bush Christmas'' (also known as ''Prince and the Great Race'') is a 1983 Australian Christmas drama film and a remake of a 1947 film of Bush Christmas (1947 film), the same name, which was based on a novel by Ralph Smart and Mary Cathcart Borer. The film marked actress Nicole Kidman's first feature film role. It was filmed on location on the Lamington Plateau, Queensland. It is also notable for music by The Bushwackers (band), the Bushwackers. Plot In rural Queensland, the Thompson family, struggling to keep its farm from foreclosure, hopes their horse, Prince, will win the New Year's Cup so that they can use the winnings to pay off the debt. However, two struggling lowlifes, Bill and Sly (John Ewart and John Howard (Australian actor), John Howard), find out about the horse and steal it, escaping into the nearby mountain range. With the father off droving cattle and the thieves having sabotaged all forms of transportation and communication before escaping, the Thompson chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge Of Power
''The Edge of Power'' is a 1987 Australian film directed by Henri Safran.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p49 References External links * Australian thriller films 1987 films Films directed by Henri Safran 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rogue Stallion
''The Rogue Stallion'' is a 1990 Australian television film about a wild horse. It was part of the ''South Pacific Adventure Series''. It was also released in the United States by Feature Films for Families. Plot Anna Peterson (Beth Buchanan) loves horses, and the fact that her father John Peterson ( Bruno Lawrence) works at a racetrack in Sydney, Australia only adds to her enthusiasm. One night at dinner, her father announces that after the success of one of the stable's horses in a prominent trophy race, his boss gave the employees a bonus large enough for the Peterson family to go back to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand. Tragically the following day, there is an accident at the stables and John is killed. With nothing left to keep them in Australia, Anna's mother Rose (Michele Fawdon) decides to follow through on her husband's dream and moves Anna and her younger brother Mike (Andrew Shepherd) to Charlton, New Zealand. Upon arrival, however, they find things are n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flair (miniseries)
''Flair'' is a 1990 Australian miniseries about an American designer who wants to break into the Australian fashion industry.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p195 Two part mini-series in which Tessa Clarke (US actress Heather Thomas), a fashion designer, returns home to Australia from America intent on becoming a major player in the Australian fashion industry. Her success leads to bitter jealousy amongst her rivals and she also has problems when a one-time employee. Pamela Winter-Smith, manages to win a court case claiming back her designs. Cast * Heather Thomas - Tessa Clarke * Andrew Clarke - Phillip Harmon * James Healey - Chris Drake * Rowena Wallace - Pamela Winter-Smith * Joseph Bottoms - Matt Lee * Charles Tingwell - Bert Clarke * Imogen Annesley - Sally Clarke * David Reyne - Mark Tupper * Elaine Smith - Megan * Briony Behets - Samantha Harmon * Khym Lam - Mira Episodes Home media ''Flair'' has yet to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
