The Nightingale (2018 film)
2018 Australian drama film directed by Jennifer Kent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian historical psychological thriller film written and directed by Jennifer Kent.[6][7][8] The film stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, and Michael Sheasby.
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Directed by | Jennifer Kent |
Written by | Jennifer Kent |
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Cinematography | Radek Ładczuk |
Edited by | Simon Njoo |
Music by | Jed Kurzel |
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Distributed by | Transmission Films |
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Running time | 136 minutes[2] |
Country | Australia |
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Budget | $2 million[3] |
Box office | $909,847[4][5] |
Set in 1825 in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), it follows a young Irish woman convict (Franciosi). She seeks vengeance against the members of the Colonial forces of Tasmania who raped her and killed both her husband and infant daughter. She is aided by an Aboriginal Tasmanian tracker (Ganambarr), who seeks vengeance for the British occupiers' Black War against his people.