van diemen's land

Director: jonathan auf der heide

Actor: oscar redding,arthur angel,paul ashcroft,thomas m. wright

Data Published: Thu Sep 24 2009

Genres: Biography,Thriller

Key Words: australia,convict,wilderness,australian,penal colony

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1361843/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land_(film)

Description: Van Diemen's Land is a movie starring Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, and Paul Ashcroft. The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour,...

Plot: A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Sarah Island penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, escape into the Tasmanian wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east.[3] Their enthusiasm and bravado soon give way to hunger, which saps their strength and causes them to despair.[4] Former urban dwellers, the English, Irish and Scottish convicts realise that not only are they lost,[5] but they do not even know how to hunt or fish. The oppressive nature of landscape becomes the setting for murder, as hunger forces the group to turn to cannibalism, killing and eating the members of the group one by one. The men do all in their power to keep moving, watch their back and avoid sleep, lest they be the next meal.[6] [7]