Product Details

• Actors: Ben Cross, Linal Haft, John Boxer, Jim Holt, Lisa McCune
• Directors: Robert Marchand
• Producers: The Potato Factory
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Visual Entertainment Group
• Run Time: 180 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B002PNS56G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,044 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Based on Bryce Courtenay's novel of the same name, this miniseries tells the story of Ikey Solomon (Ben Cross), his wife Hannah and his mistress Mary (Lisa McCune). Set in London and Tasmania in the middle 19th century it is the first in a trilogy of novels to be made into a mini-series. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute, ...The Potato Factory

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully made film, December 10, 2009

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This review is from: The Potato Factory [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)

If you loved the book, you'll love this movie, but it leaves enough to the imagination that it can be seen by older teens. Ben Cross actually pulls off multiple roles and plays them well! While all 3 main characters, Hannah, Mary and Ikey are transported as criminals to penal colonies, the real plot centers around how two women try to destroy each other--one for noble reasons and without too much intention, and the other out of wickedness and spite. Ikey's bonds with several people catch your attention--as well as some of his funnier shennanigans. This is wonderful historical fiction, but it has all the elements of how one learns the meaning of loyalty, family, friendship and true love. It is bonds with others that help characters to survive, and those bonds that unite as well as divide. It also is a story of adventure and survival--survival being the most difficult thing these characters had to do in the harshest of times and in the harshest of places.