Ground Zero

Australia, 1988

Film
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Harvey Denton (Colin Friels) is movie cameraman who is plunged into a bewildering series of events when, one night, his flat is viciously ransacked. Someone is after something, but what? Now Trebilcock of ASIO, Australia’s secret service, contacts Harvey with strange news. The body of his father, a documentary filmmaker, missing since Harvey was a boy, has been found in the desert outback, buried inside a thirty year old plane wreck and the wreck is discovered to be radioactive.

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Credits

co-director

Bruce Myles

Michael Pattinson

Duration

01:46:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300995

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q5610898

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