Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)

• Everlyn Sampi: Molly Craig
• Tianna Sansbury: Daisy Craig
• Laura Monaghan: Gracie Fields
• Kenneth Branagh: A. O. Neville
• David Gulpilil: MooDoo the tracker

Long Walk Home ( Original title: Rabbit-Proof Fence; German TV Alternative title: The long way home ) is a film drama made ​​in 2002, based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington, who also took part in the script. The multi-award winning film by Australian director Phillip Noyce describes the escape of two sisters and their cousin from a state approved school and their subsequent week-long and grueling hike along the Rabbit - Proof Fence.

Action

The two sisters Molly and Daisy Craig are so-called half-breed children - her mother is an Aboriginal by the Aboriginal tribe of Martu, their fathers are white migrant workers. They live in Jigalong, 1931 are forced separated from her mother and together with her cousin Gracie Fields brought in a reform school near Perth, located about 1,500 miles from Jigalong. This is due to the Chief Protector of Aborigines AO Neville, the Western Australian director of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. He thus pursues him by law from goal, Aboriginal children and hybrids by alienation from their roots to better educate "white ruling class " on domestic workers and farm workers for. But shortly after their arrival in the home to escape the three girls.

It starts an escape, the course leads the girls to the rabbit fence so called. Since Jigalong located near this fence, they follow him. Along the way they always encounter friendly but also unpleasing people, both white and Aboriginal. Meanwhile MooDoo makes the search for the girls. He is an Aborigine, whose daughter also lives in the boarding school. Because otherwise he no longer his daughter could see, he works as a tracker for Neville and has a mandate to hunt runaway. On top of that Neville has turned the police. But Molly, the eldest of the trio, can obliterate all traces sent. This enables the girls again and again to escape their pursuers.

From his desk Neville can spread the rumor that the mothers of the girls were now in a different city. When the girls find out about it, wants Gracie there and ultimately becomes completely alone on the way to the nearest railway station to go from there by train. Molly and Daisy continue to follow first the fence, turn it around soon, however, to search for Gracie. You 'll catch up though, but then have to watch as her cousin is picked up and taken away by police. The flight of the two sisters goes on and ends after nine week period, in the birthplace of Jigalong where Molly and Daisy her mother and grandmother can finally close in his arms again. Neville loses all along the line and has a scandal on the neck. The real Molly and Daisy Craig Craig Kadibill have the last word.

Background

The film, which cost about six million U.S. dollars, based on the real experiences of Molly Craig, mother of Doris Pilkington Garimara. Like their mother was sent to a reform school at the age of four years, Doris. This procedure was under the so-called General Child Welfare Law (English for " General Child Welfare Act " ) from 1910 to 1976 in Australia and would gang and was Stolen by the term generations, become a byword for racism against indigenous people of Australia. Estimates of the Commission on Human Rights and Equality ( HREOC ) in 1997, according to which have been affected a total of approximately 100,000 Aboriginal children and half-breeds. This commission even assumes that the current sad state of the entire Aboriginal people ( uprooting, alcoholism, self-destruction, etc. ) is due to these violent actions of European immigrants and this assumes that the " white rulers of Australia " ultimately a genocide of the indigenous people. One recommendation of the HREOC to officially apologize to the victims and their families, the Australian government came to only in February 2008.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was produced by Peter Gabriel and composed (two songs were composed in collaboration with Richard Evans and David Rhodes). The music was under the title Long Walk Home: Music from the published Rabbit-Proof Fence as a album, it involves the third soundtrack album and overall the twelfth studio album of the British musician. Gabriel played a number of instruments, but also worked with numerous guest musicians. He reached back for the compositions on elements of traditional Aboriginal music.

Review

Long Walk Home premiered on 4 February 2002 in Australia. On 21 February 2002, the film came in the Australian cinema. This was followed by theatrical release in many other countries. The total box office earnings of 16.18 million U.S. dollars. In Germany, where he started on 29 May 2003, the film was seen 224,874 times.

Most critics, such as even the Americans Roger Ebert, the film took on a largely positive. However, a few attested the movie boredom and predictability.

Reviews

Filmdienst wrote in issue 11/2003: " A chapter of Australian history that has long been covered up and concealed, although the officially organized kidnappings lasted until 1970, as the basis for a dedicated, politically charged film, the emotional hardness by a poetic tenor, the knockout of hardships and mythological elevation moderates. "

Awards

On the Valladolid Film Festival in 2002, the Aspen Film Festival in 2002, the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002, the Durban International Film Festival 2002 and the Leeds International Film Festival 2002, the film won an audience award ever. The São Paulo International Film Festival, he also received the audience award, here however as Best Foreign Film. On the Denver International Film Festival, he was awarded the People's Choice Award. On the Polish Film Festival CamerImage, each the best cameramen will be honored at the, the film also took part in the competition, Christopher Doyle, however, had beaten the competition Edi and Road to Perdition give.

At the ceremony for the AFI Australian Film Institute Awards in 2002 Long Walk Home was ten times nominated and won in the categories of Best Film, Best Music and Best Sound. He received further nominations in the categories of Best Director, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (David Gulpilil ). A similar success was the film in the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, where he Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay won six nominations in the categories. Everlyn Sampi, the actress who plays Molly was nominated for Best Actress.

The National Board of Review drew from Phillip Noyce for Best Director. The Soundtrack ( Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence ), the Peter Gabriel wrote, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Music. The Young Artist Awards Everlyn Sampi and Tianna Sansbury received nominations in the Best Actor category.