A Fortunate Life (1986)
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At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
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Dorothy AllisonGrandma CarrDale RandallRoy FaceyJohn LeyEric FaceyAnthony RichardsBert (9 Years)Benedict SweeneyBert (14 Years)Dominic SweeneyBertPat BishopAlice McCall
Paul SonkkilaArchie McCallJeffrey RhoeJock McKayMaurie OgdenCopLeslie WrightJack LanderRaelene HughesYoung Alice McCallMovie DNA
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At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
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A Fortunate Life has a runtime of 90 minutes.
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