''The Golden Cage'' is a 1975 Australian film about two Turkish migrants in Australia made by the husband and wife team and Ilhan Kuyululu. It was the first Australian film directed by a woman since the 1930s.

David Stratton David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer. Life and career Born in Trowbridge, ...

, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980, p. 281

Production

The film was shot in March and April 1975, with the aid of $22,500 from the Film, Radio and Television Board of the

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. It failed to achieve commercial distribution. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 291 Kuyululu tried to produce a film ''The Battle of Broken Hill'' about the 1915

Battle of Broken Hill The Battle of Broken Hill was a fatal incident which took place in Australia near Broken Hill, New South Wales, on 1 January 1915. Two men shot dead four people and wounded seven more, before being killed by police and military officers. Thou ...

but was unable to secure finance and returned to Turkey.

Phillip Noyce Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian filmmaker. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama ('' Newsfront'', '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'', '' The Quiet American''); thrillers (''Dead ...

worked as an assistant director on the movie.

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