Your dad's the Defence Minister. You just threw a molotov at his conference. Family dinners are awkward now.
The story of a university student who leads a protest against an Asian security conference in Canberra which has been organised by his father the Australian Defence Minister. His life and his demonstration become disrupted.
Direction
Freeman's documentary-like protest sequences feel dangerously real.
Acting
Gerard Maguire's simmering rage as the torn son.
Director
Warwick Freeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Canberra, blurring fiction with documentary urgency. The Asian security conference fictionalizes real SEATO tensions Australia was sweating through.
Director Warwick Freeman was a documentary filmmaker who never made another feature; this angry anomaly exists because the Australian Film Development Corporation threw money at anything resembling 'cultural relevance' in 1970.
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