Bordertown (Australian TV series)

*Bordertown*
Bordertown
Genre	Drama
Starring	Mitchell Butel; Linda Cropper; Melita Jurisic; Alex Menglet; Joe Petruzzi; Christine Tremarco; Hugo Weaving; Petru Gheorghiu; Geoff Morrell; Kim Hillas; Norman Kaye; Ray Barrett; Peta Toppano;
Music by	Guy Gross
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
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Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries set in 1952 in a refugee camp located in a dusty, remote Australian town called Baringa. The story depicts a year in the lives of the camp residents, displaced persons from World War II who are learning English and awaiting jobs and new lives in Australia.^[1] The series stars Hugo Weaving as an English teacher and also features Cate Blanchett in a smaller role as an albino Italian migrant.^[2]

^ Ina Bertrand, "Borders and Boundaries: History and Television in a Post-Modern World" inTony Barta (1998). Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 189–203. ISBN 978-0-275-95402-4.
^ Holly Ordway, "Bordertown" (review), DVD Talk, 7 October 2002.

[Bertrand-1] Ina Bertrand, "Borders and Boundaries: History and Television in a Post-Modern World" inTony Barta (1998). Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 189–203. ISBN 978-0-275-95402-4.

[DVDTalk-2] Holly Ordway, "Bordertown" (review), DVD Talk, 7 October 2002.

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