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A FORTUNATE LIFE (1985) Australia - wersja angielska - BEZ LEKTORA
Ekranizacja - autor - A.B."Bert" Facey
cast:
Bill Kerr ... Narrator
Dorothy Alison ... Grandma Carr
Dale Randall ... Roy Facey
John Ley ... Eric Facey
Anthony Richards ... Bert (9 years)
Benedict Sweeney ... Bert (14 years)
Dominic Sweeney ... Bert / ...
Pat Bishop ... Alice McCall
Paul Sonkkila ... Archie McCall
Jeffrey Rhoe ... Jock McKay
Leslie Wright ... Jack Lander
Raelene Hughes ... Young Alice McCall

"A Fortunate Life" is based on the bestselling biography of A.B. "Bert" Facey (1894-1982). This moving four-part television mini series covers the first part of the book. The mini-series stays true to the form of the book: it is somewhat unsophisticated and perhaps overly direct in its storytelling. The series ends with the year 1915, (the book finishes in 1976) after having shown a great deal of Mr. Facey's struggle to survive during hard times.

This four-part miniseries is based on A. B. Facey's best-selling autobiographical novel, which tells of the early trials and tribulations of Bert Facey. At eight years old, he was forced by economic circumstances 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 First World War campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula. Despite this early deprivation, he finds happiness in his marriage in 1915 to his wife of nearly sixty years, Evelyn. A Fortunate Life is an inspirational tale of one man's struggle against seemingly overwhelming barriers to achieve peace and contentment.