Gallipoli
From a place you've never heard of, comes a story you'll never forget.
From a place you've never heard of, comes a story you'll never forget.
Adventure, Drama, History, War
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1981
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As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Director:
Cast:
,
Bill Hunter
,
Mel Gibson
,
Mark Lee
,
Bill Kerr
,
Gerda Nicolson
,
Harold Hopkins
,
Heath Harris
,
Robert Grubb
,
Ron Graham
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Details
Rated:
PG
Runtime:
112 min
Release date:
13 Aug 1981
Country:
AU
Languages:
English, Portuguese
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$11,740,000
Awards:
11 wins & 6 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
18 Jan 2010
rotten:
The central section devoted to training in Egypt sags badly through its crass buddy antics and its crude caricatures of wogs and pommies.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003