The Tall Man

The Tall Man (2011)

This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty-five minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. This is also the story of that policeman, the tall enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no viewer will forget.

Data di uscita
2011-09-08
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (6)
Durata
1 h 18 min
Generi
Documentario
Regista
Tony Krawitz

Curiosità

The Tall Man is a 2011 Australian documentary film directed by Tony Krawitz. It is about the death of Cameron "Mulrunji" Doomadgee in police custody on Great Palm Island, Palm Islands, Queensland, Australia, on 19 November 2004.

Production

The film's script was based on the book The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper.

The film aims to include Aboriginal Australians telling their own stories in their own voices, in accordance with Blackfella Films's main objective.

Despite months of negotiations, the Queensland Police Service declined to be involved and no members of the Queensland Police were willing to be interviewed.

It is telling, I think, that the Commissioner of Police in Queensland still doesn't feel that he needs to talk, on the record, about one of the most important moments in race relations in our current history. That no one felt the need to give even a simple interview. I think that mirror is too big to hold up.

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