Walkabout 2xDVD9 Criterion Collection #10

Walkabout / Criterion Collection#10

«A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before...»

Country: Great Britain, Australia

Studio: Max L. Raab Productions, Si Litvinoff Film Production.

Genre: Drama, Adventure

Year of release: 1971
Duration:01:40:34

Production:The Criterion Collection#10

Translation 1:Professional (Multivoice, voiceover)

Translation 2:Author (single voiceover) Sergei Ryabov

Subtitles:English, Russian platonych, Boris Arkhiptsev.

Premiere (world):05/16/1971

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: Jenny Agutter - Girl
David Galpilil - Black Boy
Luke Rogue - White Boy
John Meillon - Father
Robert McDara - White Male
Peter Carver is a goner
John Illingsworth - young man
Hilary Bamberger - woman
Barry Donnelly - Australian scientist

Description: Among the Australian Aborigines, "walking" is a rite of passage into adulthood, during which a teenager is left alone in the desert and must survive by adapting to its conditions.
A sister (about 18 years old) and brother (about 7 years old) are abandoned in the desert by their father, who suddenly goes crazy, burns the car and kills himself. Carrying only a transistor radio, the children wander through the desert with ever-waning hope of salvation. One day, a young aborigine, Galpilil, who is making his rounds, finds them and shows them how to survive in the desert. Galpilil becomes attracted to the girl and one night performs a strange ritual mating dance for her, but she rejects him. What he took for goodwill was nothing more than gratitude for salvation and the politeness of a well-bred white girl. The next morning, she and her brother find the aborigine hanging from a tree in his arms and showing no signs of life. Eventually, the children return to civilization.
The film ends where it began - scenes of monotonous city life. A man returns home in the evening after working in the office. The girl (the main character) is preparing food. He kisses her on the cheek, asks about business, she nods, answers something, but hopelessness is visible in all their words and movements. She cuts meat, and scenes from their walk in the desert float before her eyes, she remembers it as a lost paradise. In conclusion, a scene is shown in which the sister, brother and aborigine swim in the lake completely naked, and their clothes are left hanging on the shore.

Screenplay: Edward Bond, Ian Cameron, Nicholas Roeg Producer: Cy Litvinoff, Anthony J. Hope, Max L. Raab Cinematographer: Nicholas Roeg Composer: John Barry Artist: Brian Eatwell, Terry Gough Editing: Anthony Gibbs, Alan Pattillo

Menu: English, animated, voice-over. Release type: DVD9 (Custom) + DVD9 Container: DVD-Video Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed, 8345 Kbps, 23,976 (24000/1001) fps Audio 1 :Russian:AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 192 Kbps Audio 2:English:AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 96 Kbps / Commentary by Nicolas Roeg and Jenny Agutter Audio 3:English:AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 384 Kbps / Original Audio 4: Russian: AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 192 Kbps / Author (single voiceover) Sergey Ryabov Subtitle format: prerendered (DVD/IDX+SUB)