Synopsis
Gallipoli is an Australian war film produced by Patricia
Lovell and Robert Stigwood, directed by Peter Weir, and starring Mel Gibson and
Mark Lee, who play two young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Army
during the First World War and participate in the failed British effort to
capture Gallipoli from the Ottoman Turks.
Background
On 2 October 1976, on a visit to the Dardanelles in
northwest Turkey, Australian film director Peter Weir (The Last Wave) took a
two-hour walk on the beaches of Gallipoli and decided that he had to make a
film about the disastrous WWI British-ANZAC campaign against Ottoman Turkey
that occurred there 61 years earlier. Weir subsequently wrote an outline and
engaged playwright-screenwriter David Williamson to turn it into a screenplay.
Weir and Williamson used C.E.W. Bean’s 12-volume Official History of Australia
in the War of 1914–1918 (Australian War Memorial, 1921–43) as one…
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