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Australian Cinema: Break of Day

on BBC Two England

continues a major season of films new to television, tonight starring Sara Kestelman
Andrew McFarlane
Spring 1920: A small mining town in Victoria, where Alice, a painter from Melbourne, has come to find a tranquil place to paint. There she encounters the handsome Tom, who is married and conventionally set in his ways as the proprietor of the local newspaper. This bitter-sweet love story, from the writer of Picnic at Hanging Rock, proved one of the most commercially successful of recent Australian films.
Screenplay CUFF GREEN
Produced by PATRICIA LOVELL Directed by KEN HANNAM
(First showing on British television) Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Sara Kestelman
Unknown:
Andrew McFarlane
Produced By:
Patricia Lovell
Directed By:
Ken Hannam
Alice:
Sara Kestelman
Tom:
Andrew McFarlane
Beth:
Ingrid Mason
Joe:
Tony Barry
Susan:
Eileen Chapman
Robbie:
Malcolm Phillips
Mr Evans:
Ben Gabriel
John:
Richard Morgan
Billy:
Graham Midinsky

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