The Lighthorsemen (film)

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The Lighthorsemen
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Directit bi	Simon Wincer
Produced bi	Jan Bladier Antony I. Ginnane Ian Jones David Lee Simon Wincer
Written bi	Ian Jones
Starnin	Peter Phelps Sigrid Thornton Tony Bonner Gary Sweet John Walton Tim McKenzie Anthony Andrews Bill Kerr Jon Blake
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Eeditit bi	Adrian Carr
Distributit bi	Hoyts Columbia TriStar
Release date	1987
Rinnin time	124/131 meen.
Kintra	Australie
Leid	Inglis
Budget	A$10,489,320[1][2]
Box office	A$1,617,288 (Australie)

The Lighthorsemen is a 1987 Australian featur film anent the men o a Warld War I licht horse unit involved in the 1917 Battle o Beersheeba durin the Sinai an Palestine Campaign. The film is based on a true story an maist o the chairacters in the film war based on real fowk.

It follaes ither Australian New Wave war films sic as Breaker Morant (1980), Gallipoli (1981), an the 5-pairt TV series Anzacs (1985). Recurrin themes o thir films include the Australian identity, sic as mateship an larrikinism, the loss o innocence in war, an forby the continued comin o age o the Australian naition an its sodgers (the ANZAC speerit).

1. ↑ "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64
2. ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 pp. 27−29