Cinematic background from Australia 2008 - Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Australia

2008

Adventure, Drama, Romance

Directors:
Baz Luhrmann
Writers:
Richard Flanagan, Stuart Beattie, Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood
Official poster of Australia 2008 directed by [object Object]
A person with blonde hair
A person with a flower in her hair
A group of people riding horses through a desert
An older man in a tuxedo is singing
A man sitting on the ground while using a cell phone in front of a herd of sheep
A woman in a blue shirt and a brown sweater