“Hunger is a strange silence”
Van Diemen's Land
5.3
50 votes·2009
·1h 44m
·MovieDramaHistoryThriller
Overview
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
Keywords
australiawildernessbased on true storyprison escapeescaped convictsurvivalmurdercannibaltasmania
Cast
Oscar Redding
Alexander Pearce
Arthur Angel
Robert Greenhill
Paul Ashcroft
Matthew Travers
Mark Leonard Winter
Alexander Dalton
Torquil Neilson
John Mathers
Thomas M. Wright
Thomas Bodenham
Greg Stone
William Kennerly
John Francis Howard
Little Brown
Matt Wilson
Duty Soldier
Adrian Mulraney
Logan
Ben Plazzer
Soldier in boat
Jonathan auf der Heide
Soldier in boat
Jason Glover
Lieutenant Cuthbertson
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