Parer's War (2014)
The savage truth of battle and the brutal truth of the heart.
Parer's War is the true story of World War II frontline cameraman, Damien Parer, whose work won Australia’s first Oscar. His desperate efforts to return to the battlefield to capture what he believed was the ‘truth’ of war were thwarted by his own government. Caught between two worlds, his own personal demons almost cost him the woman he loved.
- Date of release
- 2014-04-27
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alister Grierson
Casting
- Matthew Le Nevez — Damien Parer
- Adelaide Clemens — Marie Cotter
- Rob Carlton — Ken Hall
- Lindsay Farris — Max Dupain
- Nicholas Bell — Bob Howes
- James Hoare — Lieutenant Jock Erskine
Interesting facts
Parer's War is a 2014 television film about Damien Parer, the Australian war photographer whose Second World War documentary film Kokoda Front Line! documenting the Kokoda Track campaign was the first Australian film to win an Oscar at the 15th Academy Awards.
Production
Director Alister Grierson utilised point-of-view shots centred on Parer's camera throughout the film and shot scenes set in New Guinea on-location at Tamborine Mountain in Queensland.
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