The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Mel Gibson
Guy Hamilton
Sigourney Weaver
Jill Bryant
Linda Hunt
Billy Kwan
Michael Murphy
Pete Curtis
Bill Kerr
Colonel Henderson
Noel Ferrier
Wally O'Sullivan
Bembol Roco
Kumar
Paul Sonkkila
Kevin Condon
Domingo Landicho
Hartono
Kuh Ledesma
Tiger Lily
Hermino De Guzman
Immigration Officer
Ali Nur
Ali
Dominador Robridillo
Betjak Man
Joel Agona
Palace Guard
Mike Emperio
Sukarno
Bernardo Nacilla
Dwarf
Coco Marantha
Pool Waiter
Norma Uatuhan
Ibu
Lito Tolentino
Udin
Cecily Polson
Moira
David Oyang
Hadji
Mark Egerton
Embassy Aide / First Assistant Director / Production Supervisor
Joonee Gamboa
Naval Officer
Pudji Waseso
Officer in Cafe
Joel Lamangan
Security Man No. 1
Mario Layco
Security Man No. 2
Jabo Djohansjan
Doctor
Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo
Roadblock Soldier (as Agus Widjaja)
Chris Quivak
Airport Official
Maurice Jarre
Original Music Composer
William M. Anderson
Editor
C.J. Koch
Screenplay / Novel
Russell Boyd
Director of Photography
Jim McElroy
Producer
Peter Weir
Screenplay / Director
David Williamson
Screenplay
Freddie Fields
Executive Producer
Herbert Pinter
Art Direction
Moya Iceton
Continuity
Nixon Binney
Camera Operator
John Seale
Second Unit Director of Photography
Gary Wilkins
Sound Recordist
Mark J. Wasiutak
Boom Operator
Elaine Crowther
Production Accountant
Carolynne Cunningham
Production Coordinator
Chris Webb
Second Assistant Director
Michael Bourchier
Third Assistant Director
Brian Bansgrove
Gaffer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 17, 1982
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Content RatingPG
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$1,300,000
Filming LocationsPhilippines
Genres
Wiki.
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. It was adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the 30 September Movement in 1965. The film is considered one of the last in the Australian New Wave genre.
The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was shot in both Australia and the Philippines and includes Australian actors Bill Kerr as Colonel Henderson and Noel Ferrier as Wally O'Sullivan.
It was banned from being shown in Indonesia until 2000, after the forced resignation of coup-leader and political successor Suharto in 1998. The title The Year of Living Dangerously is a quote which refers to a famous Italian phrase used by Sukarno: vivere pericolosamente, meaning "living dangerously". Sukarno used the line for the title of his Indonesian Independence Day speech of 1964.