Gallipoli (1981)

Name: Gallipoli
Director: Peter Weir
Genre: War, History, Drama
Released: 1981-08-13
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Cast: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins

War History Drama

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins

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Runtime112 min

RatingPG

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Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I. They are sent to the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire, where they take part in the Gallipoli campaign. During the course of the film, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the film occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli, depicting the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.