The Leaving of Liverpool

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Kevin KnapmanScreen Time: 75%Role: Bert Age: 15 years old |
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Christine TremarcoScreen Time: 70%Role: Lily Age: 14 years old |
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
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Rating: 8.3 (3 votes)
Directed: Michael Jenkins
Country: Australia
Language: English
Genre: Coming of Age, Drama, Historical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103471
Directed: Michael Jenkins
Country: Australia
Language: English
Genre: Coming of Age, Drama, Historical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103471
Summary
The story of two young lives caught up in the British child migration schemes of the 1950s. Lily (Christine Tremarco) and Bert (Kevin Jones), are transported from an orphanage in Liverpool, England to the other side of the world, to Australia, where their childhoods are stolen from them in so-called ‘centres of care’ where they are brutalised by those whose responsibility is to equip them for their new life.
Their extraordinary strength of character and love for each other enables them to break out of the dehumanising world into which they have been thrown.