Wake in Fright

RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, director Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT finds young teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond) arriving in an outback mining town while on his way to Sydney. On one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant enters a smoky, crowded pub and meets the locals.

One night in Bundanyabba soon stretches to five, in which Grant discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction.

There is no Australian film quite like Wake in Fright. Nominated for cinema's ultimate prize, the Palme d'Or, at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, it is still as raw and fresh today as it was then. Rediscover this fully restored cinematic masterpiece.

Scanned from the original camera negative, and then colour-corrected and stabilised one shot at a time, the release of this brand new 4K restoration of Wake In Fright is a landmark moment in Australia’s cinematic history.