The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

12/17/1982 (AU) • 1h 55m

Romance, Drama

A love caught in the fire of revolution.

Overview

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

Top Billed Cast

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

Paul Sonkkila

Kevin Condon


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$6,000,000.00

Revenue

$1,300,000.00

Keywords

civil war

dwarf

photography

journalism

embassy

indonesia

falling in love

jakarta indonesia

java, indonesia

1960s

jakarta

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