THE ASTOR REVIEW

Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, the story of a young teacher who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. He then plunges headlong into utter destruction. There is no Australian film quite like this. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 and still as raw and fresh today as it was then, rediscover this lost cinematic masterpiece. “The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence” – Nick Cave

IMDB SYNOPSIS

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...