The Tall Man

Australia, 2011

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This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty-five minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. This is also the story of that policeman, the tall enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no viewer will forget.

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Credits

director

Tony Krawitz

writer

Tony Krawitz

Duration

01:18:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2011

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-96064

Language

English

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

96064

Wikidata

Q18791527

Collected

127 times

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