I watched the most wonderful film last night.
This is the true story of the British Govt deporting children around the Commonwealth including Australia. These were children who were in orphanages for temporary care, most actually had families they belonged to, but were lied to and taken.
I vaguely remember a documentary of sorts years ago about the boys sent to Western Australia and were forced to build a Monastery for the Christian Brothers in above 40 degree heat. These were boys as young as 7. But for the most part, this story has been untold.
The movie follows the story of Margaret Humphreys, a Social Worker who stumbles onto the story of the deportation and cannot believe it is not common knowledge such a terrible thing had been happening for so many years. The British Govt finally made an official apology last year.
It is a heart wrenching story and beautifully told. Hugo Weaving and David Wenham are wonderful.
I haven't written about a movie for a while, and this one would be up there in my top faves. Really worth seeing.
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I actually watched it on the plane coming back - it was FABulous, I agree! What a shocking thing. Mind boggling that it was ever allowed to happen and her courage in seeing that it was no longer hidden/ swept under the carpet was just amazing. Kx
I heard this being reviewed ( it seems I never actually SEE a film!) It is a terrible thing, The Leaving of Liverpool, I think, was another on TV. It beggars belief that this could have happened.
Thank you for sharing!
And your Harry Potter mini is beautiful! It must have been fun to make it!
Maybe I will spend some time viewing films as we move into cooler weather. I believe that in Canada they were called Home Children and were brought here mostly as farm labourers. Many were treated very badly. I will look for this one.
I always love your recommendations and will definitely check it out-thank you
This is such a fantastic movie, I cried and cried ....but this is a very serious situation. I work in mental health and often come across victims of this very scheme - there is also a bigger aspect known as the "missing australians" - aussie kids either abandoned or considered delinquent (usually abused) that were used as domestic slaves and labourers in AUstralian cities. It is estimated there nearly 500,000 missing Australians. Kevin Rudd in his short period of govt made an official apology to this group and compensation payments are being made..
It really was a wonderful movie and it was disappointing that it stayed at the cinemas for only such a short time.
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