The Furnace
2020 · Movie · 116 min. · Australia
1897 Western Australia. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400oz Crown-marked gold bars. Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace—the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown. The film is an unlikely hero’s tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. It illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s “Ghan” cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nation’s desert interior, thereby forming unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.
Direction Roderick MacKay
Cast Jay Ryan · Ahmed Malek · David Wenham · Erik Thomson · Mahesh Jadu · Goran D. Kleut · Gary Young · Baykali Ganambarr · Mansoor Noor · Kaushik Das · Osamah Sami · Trevor Jamieson · Samson Coulter · Evan Williams · Quentin Yung · Xin Ocean · Steve McCall · Sean Choolburra · Wakarra Gondarra · Agnes Choi
Soundtrack Marc Bradshaw
Screenplay Roderick MacKay
Cinematography Bonnie Elliott · Michael McDermot
Original title The Furnace
6.0
21 votes (FilmAffinity)
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