A Fortunate Life (1986) (original) (raw)
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm laborer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm laborer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli. (less)
Directors: Henri Safran, Marcus Cole
Starring: Nikki Coghill, Dorothy Alison, Val Lehman, Bill Hunter, Ray Meagher, John Ley
Narrator: Bill Kerr
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