Strikebound

Strikebound
Directed byRichard Lowenstein
Written byRichard Lowenstein
Based onbook Dead Men Don't Dig Coal by Wendy Lowenstein
Produced byMiranda Bain
Timothy White
StarringChris Haywood
Carol Burns
CinematographyAndrew de Groot
Edited byJill Bilcock
Music byDeclan Affley
Distributed byRonin Films
Release date
  • 20 September 1984 (1984-09-20)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$750,000[1]
Box officeA$157,000 (Australia)

Strikebound is a 1984 Australian film directed by Richard Lowenstein and based on the Wendy Lowenstein novel Dead Men Don't Dig Coal. The film got several AFI Award nominations and won in the Best Achievement in Production Design category.[2]

Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.[3]

  1. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 41
  2. ^ IMDb awards
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference lowenstein was invoked but never defined (see the help page).