Gallipoli

Both a devastating war film and stirring coming-of-age story, this rarely screened epic was the most expensive Australian film ever made.

  • Director

    Peter Weir

  • With

    Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr

  • Australia 1981. 111min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

In 1915, two young and aimless Australian men enlist to fight in the First World War. They soon face the brutal reality of the Gallipoli campaign against the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. Impressively dramatising the horrifying real events of the conflict, Weir’s vibrant portrait of youthful innocence and friendship results in one of the best and most affecting war films ever made.

Co-presented with the London Australian Film Society.

The screening of Gallipoli on Saturday 25 April will be introduced by Dr Stephen Morgan, King’s College London.