Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Weir
Screenplay byCliff Green
Based onPicnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
Produced byHal McElroy
Jim McElroy
Starring
CinematographyRussell Boyd
Edited byMax Lemon
Production
companies
Distributed byB.E.F. Film Distributors
Release date
  • 8 August 1975 (1975-08-08)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$443,000[1]
Box officeA$5.12 million (Australia)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Cliff Green adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community.

Picnic at Hanging Rock was a commercial and critical success, and helped draw international attention to the then-emerging Australian New Wave of cinema.

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