AUSTRALIA · 1971

Wake in Fright

Ted Kotcheff
moral degradation isolation in hostile environments Australian outback human cruelty entrapment and desperation
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Synopsis

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Year1971
CountryAustralia
DirectorTed Kotcheff
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