After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
02-27-2020
1h 42m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Tony Tilse
Writer:
Deb Cox
Production:
Every Cloud Productions, Screen Australia, Film Victoria
Key Crew
Producer:
Lucy Maclaren
Producer:
Fiona Eagger
Executive Producer:
Deb Cox
Executive Producer:
Fiona Eagger
Script Consultant:
John Collee
Locations and Languages
Country:
AU; US
Filming:
AU
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Essie Davis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Essie Davis is an Australian actress. Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, she is the daughter of locally famed artist George Davis. She emerged from the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania in the late 1980s and has gone on to appear in Hollywood movies. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Her career started after her role in the all Australian movie Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995), also starring other prestigious actors such as Geoffrey Rush, Leo McKern, and Joan Sutherland. Her most famous movie roles are in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Richard Flanagan's 1998 Tasmanian film The Sound of One Hand Clapping, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. In 2003 she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her UK performance in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2004 she starred in a Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, for which she earned a Tony nomination. In 2005 she appeared as Mrs. Nellie Lovett in the BBC production of Sweeney Todd with Ray Winstone. In the 2008 film Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger she plays Esther's controlling mother. She has recently completed filming the movie Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, directed by Baz Luhrmann. In 2008 Davis played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She returned to Tasmania to launch the "The Tasmanian Theatre Company" in 2008 and help support local theatre whilst encouraging youth to continue participating in the arts.
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Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.
Daniel Lapaine (born June 15, 1971) is an Australian stage, film and television actor, currently residing in London. He also works as a writer and director.
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Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian actress. McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theatre Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper (1992), and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most promising young actresses. She received Australian Film Institute Award nominations for her roles in Stark, This Won't Hurt a Bit (both 1993), The Battlers and Traps (both 1994) before winning two awards in 1995 for "Best Actress in a Television Drama" for Halifax f.p: "Lies of the Mind", and Best Actress in a Leading Role" for Angel Baby. With this success she ventured to the United States and secured a Green Card, as a "Person of Extraordinary Ability". She subsequently had acting roles in films such as Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). In 2004, she began playing the lead female role Diana Skouris in the science fiction television series The 4400, one of the year's biggest successes. The show ran for four seasons, ending in 2007. She also played a lead role in an episode of Two Twisted (2006), an Australian television program. McKenzie appeared on television again in 2006 playing Linda Landry in "Umney's Last Case", the third episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes on TNT. She has recorded a collection of songs: "Shy Baby", "Boo Boo", "Find Me", "Summer", "Under The Elm" and "Ever". "Shy Baby" was used in the second season finale of The 4400, and will be included in the show's soundtrack released in April 2007. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 1996, a portrait of McKenzie by Garry Shead was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics". McKenzie became mother to a daughter in June 2009. From 7 February to 27 March 2011, she will appear in In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Theatre Company
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Miriam Margoyles OBE (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles were in theatre and, following a transition to film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
Ian Bliss (born June 30, 1966) is an Australian film, television, and stage character actor. With a career that has spanned 30 years, he has appeared in numerous Australian television dramas including Heartbreak High, Wentworth, Underbelly and more.
Ashleigh Cummings (born 11 November 1992) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), Puberty Blues (2012), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), Hounds of Love (2016), NOS4A2 (2019), and Citadel (2022–present). Cummings was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Australian parents. She moved to Australia with her family when she was 12 years old. She began her acting career in the early 2000s, appearing in a number of television commercials and short films. In 2007, she made her feature film debut in Razzle Dazzle. Cummings' breakthrough role came in 2010, when she starred in the film Tomorrow, When the War Began. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Cummings was nominated for Best Young Actor at the 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards. Since then, Cummings has starred in a number of films and television series, including Puberty Blues, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Hounds of Love, NOS4A2, and Citadel. She is known for her versatility and her ability to bring complex characters to life. Cummings has won numerous awards for her work, including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actor (2010), the Logie Award for Most Outstanding New Talent (2013), and the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama (2019). Cummings is a talented actress with a bright future ahead of her. She is known for her versatility and her ability to bring complex characters to life.
