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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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form
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Once My Mother
( dir. Sophia Turkiewicz
)
Australia
:
Change Focus Media
Kalejdoskop Film
,
2014
7614240
2014
single work
film/TV
Bio-pic.
'When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.
'With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?'
Source: Official website (oncemymother.com). (Sighted: 21/7/2014)
- 2015 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Community Relations Commission Award
- 2015 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
- 2014 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Feature Length Documentary
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form
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Silver City
( dir. Sophia Turkiewicz
)
Australia
:
Limelight Productions
,
1984
Z1692595
1984
single work
film/TV
historical fiction
Set in a migrant camp during the years following World War II, a period when some four thousand Polish families came to Australia, the narrative focuses on Julian. Although married to Anna and with a son, he falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian is eventually forced to make a decision between love and family.
- 1984 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Film
- 1984 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Screenplay — Original
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