The Furnace (2020)
There is no Grace of God here. Just the land, and all its spoils.
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
- Date of release
- 2020-12-10
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Western, History
- Director
- Roderick MacKay
Casting
- David Wenham — Mal
- Ahmed Malek — Hanif
- Jay Ryan — Sergeant Shaw
- Erik Thomson — Corporal Briggs
- Baykali Ganambarr — Woorak
- Samson Coulter — Trooper Sam
- Gary Young — Fai
- Mahesh Jadu — Sadhu
- Kaushik Das — Jundah
- Goran D. Kleut — Yates
- Osamah Sami — Majid
- Trevor Jamieson — Coobering
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 5
The Furnace is a 2020 Australian adventure drama film written and directed by Roderick MacKay. Set in the Western Australian outback during the goldrushes of the 1890s, the film's characters include "Afghan" cameleers, a white gold thief, and local Aboriginal people. It was nominated for several AACTA Awards.
Production
The film was directed by Roderick MacKay, his debut as director. It was produced by Tim White and Tenille Kennedy.
Several of the Aboriginal actors speak their Badimaya language, one of many Aboriginal Australian languages which are endangered. It was filmed in Yamatji country in what is now known as the Mid West region, in the Shire of Mount Magnet (Badimaya) and Kalbarri (Nhanda).
The Furnace was produced by Southern Light Films, Meaning Maker and The Koop, and distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Umbrella Films and internationally by Arclight Films.
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