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Displaced Persons (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Displaced Persons' is a 1985 Australian TV movie about refugees arriving in Australia in 1945.Ed. Scott Murray, 'Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p45[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19850923&id=MDZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4670,5911823 Review at 'Sydney Morning Herald' 23 September 1985] accessed 23 June 2013
It was the first script written by Louis Nowra, who was inspired by a book he read about displaced people in Australia after World War Two. He wrote it in three days and sent it to the ABC who agreed to make it.[http://www.aftrs.edu.au/media/books/lumina/lumina9-ch23/index.html Interview with Louis Nowra] accessed 11 March 2014
The movie was well received and Nowra went on to write a number of works for the ABC.
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