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Directed by | John Duigan |
Produced by | Richard Mason |
Written by | John Duigan |
Starring | Bryan Brown Helen Morse John Bell |
Music by | Sharon Calcraft |
Cinematography | Brian Probyn |
Editing by | Henry Dangar |
Distributed by | Village Roadshow |
Release date(s) | 30 July 1982 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Far East is a 1982 Australian drama film directed by John Duigan and starring Bryan Brown, Helen Morse and John Bell. Far East is a remake of the 1942 classic Casablanca.
Journalist Peter Reeves (John Bell) takes his wife Jo (Helen Morse) to the Far East. There they meet Morgan Keefe (Bryan Brown), an ex-pat Aussie who owns a sleazy bar/nightspot called "The Koala Klub". After renewing their romance, Jo seeks Morgan's help when her husband is persecuted by the military regime for his investigations.
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John Bell was nominated at the 1982 AFI Awards in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.
Far East grossed $1,972,000 at the box office in Australia,[1] which is equivalent to $5,738,520 in 2009 dollars.
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The Far East is an alternate geographical term in English (with equivalents in many other languages – see the infobox on the right for examples), that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia.South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.
Since the 1960s, East Asia has become the most common term for the region in international mass media outlets. Far East is often deprecated as archaic, offensive, and sometimes even racist. In 2010, The Economist commented:
In other words, "Far East" is inherently Eurocentric because it is part of a geographical paradigms in which even Western Asia is the "Near East" or "Middle East". Until the end of the 20th century, it could be argued that Europe was the "center of gravity" of the global economy, although even that is no longer true.
The term Far East came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 12th century, denoting the Far East as the "farthest" of the three "easts", beyond the Near East and the Middle East. For the same reason, Chinese people in the 19th and early 20th centuries called Western countries "Tàixī (泰西)"—i.e. anything further west than the Arab world.
Far East is a 1998 play by American playwright A.R. Gurney.
Far East was first produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts in July 1998. It premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in January 1999. The director was Daniel Sullivan, with a cast that featured Michael Hayden, Sonnie Brown, Lisa Emery, Bill Smitrovich, and Connor Trinneer. It has since been produced in regional theatres, including the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in 2001 and the Laguna Playhouse, California in 2002.
The play was presented on the Public Television series "Stage on Screen" in 2001.
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