Source: Australian Screen Online (ASO)
Director
Richard Frankland
Writer
Richard Frankland
Producer
John Foss, Richard Franklin
DOP
Peter Zakharov
Year
1999
Location
Healesville, VIC
Type
Short Drama
ASO Link
Synopsis
HARRY’S WAR is a story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that embraces culture, war and death. Harry and Mitch are two mates who go off to fight in the jungles of Papua New Guinea during World War II. Harry is a Koorie and Mitch a non-Aboriginal Australian. In the story, we see Harry grow from a boy in uniform to a man in war. We watch as he learns of his impending death and how he faces it. HARRY’S WAR is about when mateship transcends race, cultural differences and societal barriers. It is a story of how war drives men to the brink and the journey becomes more important than the journey’s end. Part of the AFC Indigenous Branch drama initiative ’Crossing Tracks’ (1999) (Source: Screen Australia https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/harrys-war-1999/12495?stxt=)
