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1 form y separately published work icon Breathing Under Water Susan Dermody , ( dir. Susan Dermody ) Australia : Periscope Productions , 1991 7890411 1991 single work film/TV fantasy

'A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with her own historical present, Beatrice is compelled to make a journey to the underworld. Armed with her map, she and Maeve find a guide, a modern day Hermes-like taxi driver named Herman (Kristoffer Greaves), to take them below the city’s surface. Herman leads Beatrice and Maeve through the gates of Pluto’s Republic, to begin their subterranean journey.'

Source: Australian Screen.
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