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This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all- female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
Original Release
09/02/1975
US Release
09/02/1975
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rachel Roberts | Mrs. Appleyard |
Vivean Gray | Miss Greta McCraw |
Helen Morse | Mlle. de Poitiers / Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers |
Kirsty Child | Miss Lumley / Miss Dora Lumley |
Tony Llewellyn-Jones | Tom |
Jacki Weaver | Minnie |
Frank Gunnell | Mr. Whitehead |
Anne-Louise Lambert | Miranda St Clare / Miranda St. Clare |
Karen Robson | Irma / Irma Leopold |
Jane Vallis | Marion Quade |
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rachel Roberts | Mrs. Appleyard |
Vivean Gray | Miss Greta McCraw |
Helen Morse | Mlle. de Poitiers / Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers |
Kirsty Child | Miss Lumley / Miss Dora Lumley |
Tony Llewellyn-Jones | Tom |
Jacki Weaver | Minnie |
Frank Gunnell | Mr. Whitehead |
Anne-Louise Lambert | Miranda St Clare / Miranda St. Clare |
Karen Robson | Irma / Irma Leopold |
Jane Vallis | Marion Quade |
Christine Schuler | Edith / Edith Horton |
Margaret Nelson | Sara Waybourne |
Ingrid Mason | Rosamund / Rosamund Swift |
Jenny Lovell | Blanche / Blanche Gifford |
Janet Murray | Juliana |
Vivienne Graves | Pupil |
Angela Bencini | Pupil |
Melinda Cardwell | Pupil |
Annabel Powrie | Pupil |
Amanda White | Pupil |
Producers
Name | Role |
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A. John Graves | Executive Producer |
Patricia Lovell | Executive Producer |
Hal McElroy | Producer |
Jim McElroy | Producer |