Plot
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 6.7/10 (3,694 voted)
Director:
Daniel Nettheim
Stars: Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor
Storyline Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Writers: Julia Leigh, Wain Fimeri
Cast: Sam Neill
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Jack Mindy
Willem Dafoe
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Martin David
Frances O'Connor
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Lucy Armstrong
Sullivan Stapleton
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Doug
Jacek Koman
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Middleman
Callan Mulvey
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Rival Hunter
Dan Wyllie
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Pool Player
Maia Thomas
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Shakti
Morgana Davies
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Sass Armstrong
Jamie Timony
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Free
John Brumpton
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Publican
Dan Spielman
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Simon
Finn Woodlock
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Bike Armstrong
Filming Locations: Central Plateau, Tasmania, Australia
Gross: AUD 1,051,613
(Australia)
(28 November 2011)
Did You Know?
Trivia:
An end title card reads: "Traps and snares are illegal in Tasmania".
Quotes: Jack Mindy:
So you can imagine when he arrived a few years back, he was about as popular as a snake in a sleeping bag.
User Review
Beautifully filmed Eco Thriller
Rating: 9/10
I live in Tasmania and I know the country well enough. When I moved
here in the 70's it was still considered possible that somehow the
tiger had survived in some remote part of the island . Not So. Decades
of intensive forestry and clearing and no hints of survival. Still the
tantalizing reports occasionally surface. The animal has moved on to
pure mythology. Into that scenario comes this beautifully filmed Eco
thriller that has a great story line but is also about our beautiful
island. The scenes are artfully mixed from various places in Tasmania
and the original footage of the tiger is reproduced again for the big
screen. How thrilling it was to see that old footage of the thirties
(last definite sightings) again.This is the last surviving footage of a
peak predator that was not a dog or cat relative but a marsupial and
very strange. The film builds slowly and carefully, William Defoe is in
a great role which he carries off so well Frances O'Connor and the kids
are just entirely in the role! Go see this film if you have the chance
and enjoy a beautiful movie I have avoided all discussion of the final
20 minutes go see it and be so surprised!! Its a beautiful and at times
tense movie.
Storyline In an act of vengeance, a young man, randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
Cast: Rafi Pitts
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Ali Alavi
Mitra Hajjar
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Sara P. Alavi - Ali's Wife
Malek Jahan Khazai
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Ali's Mother
Said Hajmohammadi
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Police Officer
Naser Madahi
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Basiri - Old Night guard
Sara Kamrani
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Orphonage Nurse
Ismaïl Amani
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Young boy
Saba Yaghoobi
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Saba Alavi - Ali's Daughter
Ali Mazinani
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Reza - Young night guard
Hassan Ghalenoi
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Policeman - Soldier
Ali Nicksaulat
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Police Officer - Commander
Arash Faraghinejad
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Policeman
Abbas Hassanzadeh
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Policeman
Amir Ayoubi
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Police Officer
Ossta Shah Tir
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Ali's Father
Release Date: 8 April 2010
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User Review
Political and gloomy
Rating: 8/10
This movie played at the International Film Festival in Berlin this
year and it was in the official program/selection! A drama about a
family living in a very disturbing time and regime. But don't expect
the movie to give you some easy answers or an easy plot to follow. This
is a difficult film, but that's the way they should be (with a theme
like that).
Of course you could argue, that the ending isn't the one you would
imagine, but hopefully the movie has gotten to you until this point, so
that you can identify with the persons at some basic level. I liked it
and I think it has some very interesting questions (that again won't be
answered in the movie). Not an easy movie then, but if that's your cup
of tea, you will be very pleased here
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