Hunger (1986 film)

Hunger
Directed by	Stephen Wallace
Produced by	Jan Chapman
Written by	Louis Nowra
Starring	Brendan Higgins Melita Jurisic
Music by	Nathan Waks
Production company	ABC
Distributed by	ABC
Release dates	10 October 1986
Running time	90 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

Hunger is a 1986 Australian TV film about a Romanian refugee who settles in Australia.^[1]

Production

Nowra wrote the film for Jan Chapman following their successful collaboration on Displaced Persons. He says the subject matter was close to Chapman's heart, and the producer thought it would make a romantic story. However the more research Nowra did, the less romantic he felt the story was and he had a deal of trouble writing it as a love story. He felt swamped with the research and did not like the real life men on whom the story was based. Nowra was not satisfied with the final script, although he said the director did the best he could. Nowra also plays a support role.^[2]

References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p83
2. Interview with Louis Nowra at Lumina accessed 11 March 2014

External links

• Hunger at Peter Malone site
• Hunger at IMDB