CinemaOSMovie · 1986 · 0h 44m

Dead Heart

90%(1)IMDbDocumentary

The Australians call the endless deserts in the interior of the continent the "dead heart". Here lies the town of Birdsville, 23 houses and a bar with a liquor license. The long-awaited telephone connection arrived in 1979, 90 years after it had been applied for. For one weekend, this place at the end of the world turns into a cauldron when 5,000 Australians, tired of civilization, invade for the annual horse race, the "Birdsville Cup". They come in buses, off-road vehicles, motorcycles and sports planes and have become a veritable plague. Because here, everyone can do what they've always wanted to do: for example, get drunk until they drop and never get up again. The collective mass drinking reaches its peak on Saturday night. By Monday morning, the fun is over. What remains is a village with 23 houses, a bar and a street littered with 80,000 empty beer cans.

Directed byOliver Herbrich

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 44m
Language
DE
Released
May 28, 1986
Studios
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film MünchenOliver Herbrich FilmproduktionLudolph Weyer Filmproduktion

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring

Franz A. Huber

Narrator (voice)

Benita Rinner

Narrator (voice)

Detlev Kügow

Narrator (voice)

Creative team
Directed by
Oliver Herbrich
Written by
Oliver Herbrich
Produced by
Petra Vonhausen
Titus Lange

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