Manganinnie is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a young, lost white girl named Joanna. Based on Beth Roberts' novel of the same name, it was directed by John Honey and was the first feature film to be financed by the short-lived Tasmanian Film Corporation.
Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Director: John Honey.
Cast: Mawuyul Yanthalawuy, Anna Ralph, Phillip Hinton, Elaine Mangan, Mana Mana Dhammarrandji, Jarrka Dhammarrandji, Len Burarrapuwuy Dhammarrandji, Makultja Baykali Dhammarrandji, Gunjalk, Mununbatijiwuy Munyaryun.
Australia, 1980.
Language: English, Aboriginal.
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Download Manganinnie / Darkening Flame. 1980.