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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Nostradamus Kid
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Film Details - Simpson Le Mesurier Films , 1993

Producers:

Terry Jennings (Producer)
Roger Le Mesurier (Executive Producer)
Roger Simpson (Executive Producer)

Production Companies:

Simpson Le Mesurier Films

Finance Organisations:

Australian Film Finance Corporation
Australian Film Commisssion.
Film Victoria

Director of Photography:

Geoff Burton

Editors:

Henry Dangar

Production Designers:

Roger Ford

Composer:

Chris Neal

Cast:

Incl. Noah Taylor (Ken Elkin), Miranda Otto (Jennie O'Brien), Arthur Dignam (Pastor Anderson), Peter Gwynne (The Shepherd's Rod), Jack Campbell (McAlister), Erick Mitsak (Wayland), Loene Carmen (Meryl), Alice Garner (Esther Anderson), Lucy Bell (Sarai Anderson), Jeanette Cronin (Christy), Colin Friels (American Preacher), Bob Maza (Black Man), Bartholomew Rose (Kavanagh), Robyn Gurney (Mrs Elkin), Marie Lloyd (Mrs Rod), Julie Godfrey (Meryl's Mum), Gregory Simpson (Mr O'Brien), John Noble (General Booth), Bruno Baldoni, Alan Light, Norm Galton, Carmel Mullin, Nan Vernon, Kenny Graham, Philip Brown, Melanie Reeson, Kirilee Trist, Luke Cross, Chris Harding, Justin Lewis, Claudia Karvan, Imogen Annesley, Evan Williams, Norman Kaye, Ron Hill, Rick Hill, Bob Ellis.

Release Dates:

1. Premiere screening - 30 May 1993 (Adelaide Film Festival). Released commercially in Australia on 14 October 1993.
2. Released on videocassette format in 1993 by Simpson Le Mesurier Films. Later released on DVD format by Beyond DVD (ca. 2004).

Location:

  • Sydney, New South Wales

Post Production:

Spectrum Films International

Awards:

  • Australian Film Institute Award (1993), Best Achievement in Costume Design - Roger Ford (nomination)
Subjects:
  • Lismore, Lismore - Goonellabah, Lismore area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • c
    Cuba,
    c
    Caribbean, Americas,
Settings:
  • 1960s
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