Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach (1992)

La journaliste Judith Wilkes laisse son mari et ses deux fils à Sydney et se rend en Malaisie pour couvrir l'histoire des boat people vietnamiens. Elle devient amoureuse de Kanan et se lie d'amitié avec Lady Minou Hobday, qui tient une veillée régulière à "Turtle Beach" où les réfugiés tentent d'atterrir secrètement dans l'espoir qu'un jour ses propres enfants arriveront. Accompagnant Minou une nuit, Judith assiste à un massacre brutal par les Malais qui la pousse à exposer les horreurs des camps d'internement de Bidong.

Date de sortie
1992-03-19
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (15)
Durée
1 h 30 min
Genres
Thriller, Drame
Réalisateur
Stephen Wallace

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Box-office : 359,4 k $AU
  • Adapté de : Turtle Beach
  • Tourné à : Sydney et Thaïlande

Turtle Beach, also known as The Killing Beach, is a 1992 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace and starring Greta Scacchi and Joan Chen. The screenplay was written by Ann Turner, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Blanche d'Alpuget. It caused controversy in Malaysia, where the government took exception to scenes of Malays executing refugees.

Production

Ann Turner was working for Roadshow when she was hired to adapt the novel, which she loved. However she says the project soon became compromised:

When I first saw the film I thought it looked like the writer was on drugs or completely insane, because you could see there were two films working within the one film... There were a lot of different voices in terms of the finance-raising, there was American money, and the producers—many, plural—really had very different views of what the film should be. Greta Scacchi really liked the book and liked the script and fought for it.

The film was financed in part by the people who had invested in Blood Oath, directed by Stephen Wallace. They were enthusiastic about that film and hired Wallace to direct. Wallace:

I loved the book and I really wanted to make the film. I think in the end the script really wasn't good enough and I had a terrible run-in with the producer on it. It was just a nightmare. I wanted to make a film about Asia again, because I thought Asia was misunderstood in Australia and I thought the more light we can shed on Asians, the better... But unfortunately in the film, it all went haywire ...

The Australian Film Finance Corporation invested $5,248,857 in the film.

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