Directed by:
Jonathan auf der HeideCinematography:
Ellery RyanComposer:
Jethro WoodwardCast:
Oscar Redding, Thomas M. Wright, Mark Leonard Winter, Jonathan auf der Heide, Torquil Neilson, Arthur Angel, Greg StoneVOD (1)
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A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen's Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth. The entrance to its remote station of secondary punishment, Macquarie Harbour, was named 'Hell’s Gates' by its prisoners as a reference to the gates of hell in Dante's 'Inferno' - "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" - was plastered at the Harbour's mouth as a warning to all souls sent there. In 1822, eight convicts escaped Macquarie Harbour in a fateful bid for freedom. This band of Irish, English and Scottish thieves were immediately hurled into chaos as their plan failed and they were thrust into the heart of a harsh and foreboding landscape. With little food or equipment, in a place these immigrants knew little about, they battled a merciless enemy - the unforgiving, barren land - a land where God wields an axe. (Madman Entertainment)
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