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Children of the Revolution [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0939791009940
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: Import, PAL
Label: Reel
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Reel
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Reel
Region Code: 4
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Reel

Features:
  • THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER



 

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,SYNOPSIS: Children of the Revolution is an Australian film whose cinematic roots go back to the sardonic comedies of Billy Wilder. It is set in two time periods, the 1950s and 1990s, and goes back and forth between them. In the 1990s, Australian politician Joe Welch (Richard Roxburgh) is having some serious difficulties. We learn just how serious they are through a series of interviews with important political commentators. Joe blames his mother, Joan Fraser (Judy Davis), for his problems. This claim seems ridiculous until we flash back to the 1950s and discover that Joan, an ardent communist, had a very brief fling with Joseph Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) and that Joe Welch could be Stalin's love-child. Welch was brought up accompanying his mother on her political rounds, and acquired a fondness for jack-booted women -- something which haunts him in his adult life. Double agent David Hoyle (Sam Neill) also had an affair with Joan during her one brief trip to Moscow, and his shadowy influence also follows Welch into the time of the film. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards,



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Australiam Communist satrical comedy
Synopsis: A blindly idealistic Australian Communist believes so fervently in the Revolution that she writes weekly love letters to Joseph Stalin, conceives his child (or so she believes), and raises a son in... A blindly idealistic Australian Communist believes so fervently in the Revolution that she writes weekly love letters to Joseph Stalin, conceives his child (or so she believes), and raises a son in the tradition of iron-fisted tyranny. A scathing, idiosyncratic satire of ideological zealotry ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Cineam at its best!
Sam Neil at his best. The writers should be comende for a great piece of political satire!



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - "I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing."
1996 Australian black comedy Children of the Revolution is one of those ideas that sounds better on paper than it plays on screen. It's the Cold War and Judy Davis is a hardline doctrinaire Communist oblivious to sad sack boyfriend Geoffrey Rush's attempts to win her hand because her heart belongs to Josef Stalin. When the dictator gets to see her letters - and more importantly her photo - he invites her to Moscow where a night of passion leaves him dead and her pregnant. Marrying Rush and raising the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best Aussie flick since Gallipoli
This wonderful, sparkling bubbly commentary is simply a masterpiece. Showing the exploits of a Communist mother and her suspecting son this movie is not only a commentary on COmmunism and the excess of liberalism but it is also a hilarious film with an amazing funny cast and a profound group of intrigue. The main character is followed through his life as he slowly realizes he is none other then the son of Stalin, the man his mother loves but who he learns to loathe. Yet as time goes on the viewer is ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The difference a moustache can make
This is an extremely original and well made farce. the film is generally comical but there are some tragic overtones throughout. The story of the idealist leader of the Australian communists earns a trip to meet Stalin in Moscow. The visit provides the setting for some of the funniest moments in the film. The idea of Stalin dancing and singing is funny in itself, imagine watching it realized on screen. But this comical interlude provides the crucial elemnt of the plot, the conception of Stalin's son. ... Read More





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