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Burstall's first film was a black-and-white short, The Prize. With photography by Gérard Vandenberg, The Prize won a bronze at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. Burstall's two young sons had acting roles.
Burstall's first film was a black-and-white short, The Prize, which won an award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of a boy who wins a goat in a fairground competition, then has it stolen from him. Burstall's two young sons had acting roles.
Burstall's first film was a black-and-white short, The Prize. With photography by Gérard Vandenberg, The Prize won a bronze at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. Burstall's two young sons had acting roles.
Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall. Petersen was a box office success and received wide distribution in the UK and US under the title Jock Petersen. Petersen is first and foremost a sobering critique of Australian life in the early 1970s.
The company's first production was the classic ocker film Alvin Purple. Among Burstall's later films are three collaborations with David Williamson: Petersen, Eliza Fraser, and Duet for Four. The final hexagon film was the 1979 feature The Last of the Knucklemen.
Apr 19, 2004 · Tim Burstall (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie Alvin Purple (1973) and its sequel Alvin Rides Again (1974).
On returning to Australia, Tim Burstall directed his first feature film, 2000 weeks (1969) which was in many ways a defining point in his career.
