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Balibo is a film of genre Drama directed by Robert Connolly released in USA on 4 november 2009 with Anthony LaPaglia
Balibo (2009)
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Add to a movie listBalibo is a 2009 Australian war film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up, by Jill Jolliffe, an Australian journalist who met the men before they were killed.
Filming began on 30 June 2008, in Dili, East Timor, and the film was released the following year. It was produced by Arenafilm in Australia, with Robert Connolly as director and David Williamson as screenwriter.
The main members of the cast are Anthony LaPaglia, playing the part of Roger East, another Australian journalist, who went to investigate the deaths of the Balibo Five only to be killed the day after the Indonesian invasion and Oscar Isaac as José Ramos-Horta, the country's second President.
LaPaglia, also an Executive Producer, names East as "probably the best role I've ever had". The five journalists are played by Damon Gameau as Greg Shackleton, Gyton Grantley as Gary Cunningham, Nathan Phillips as Malcolm Rennie, Mark Winter as Tony Stewart and Thomas Wright as Brian Peters.
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The story is seen through the eyes of veteran journalist Roger East. Introduced as a once-fearless foreign correspondent now working in PR in Darwin, East is drawn to East Timor by José Ramos-Horta, of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor; then the fledgling republic's charismatic young secretary of foreign affairs. Initially refusing to become involved, East changes his tune after Ramos-Horta shows him photos of five Australian TV reporters missing in the border town of Balibo.Actors
Anthony LaPaglia
(Roger East)
Oscar Isaac
(Jose Ramos-Horta)
Gyton Grantley
(Gary Cunningham)
Nathan Phillips
(Malcolm Rennie)
Tom Wright
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