Black And White

Craig Lahiff | Australia/UK 2002 | 102 min

In late 1958, in the remote town of Ceduna in South Australia, a nine year old white girl was brutally raped and bludgeoned to death in a beach cave.

Shortly thereafter, in the presence of six local police officers, a full confession was signed by Max Stuart, an itinerant, alcoholic Aboriginal man of mixed descent, and his conviction and subsequent hanging for the crime seemed inevitable.

Craig Lahiff’s Black and White is a powerful dramatisation of Stuart’s ensuing trial and numerous appeals, in a case which divided a nation, and exposed for the first time the rotten foundations on which Australia’s most important institutions were built.

Cast	Robert Carlyle - David O'Sullivan Charles Dance - Roderic Chamberlain Kerry Fox - Helen Devaney Colin Friels - Father Tom Dixon Ben Mendelsohn - Rupert Murdoch David Ngoombujarra - Max Stuart Roy Billing - Det-Sgt Turner Bille Brown - Thomas Playford John Gregg - Rohan Rivett Heather Mitchell - Roma Chamberlain Garry Waddell - Constable Jones Frank Gallacher - Justice Reed Rhys McConnochie - Justice Abbott Vincent Ball - Chief Justice Napier Chris Haywood - Karskens
Release dates	31 October 2002 - Australia 9 January 2004 - Great Britain First shown at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2002.
Video/DVD Release Date	11 February 2004 (DVD)
Awards	Australia 2003: Best S. Actor: David Ngoombujarra
Rating	MA 15+ - Mature accompanied
Language level
Distributor	Metro Tartan
Soundtrack	Cezary Skubiszewski
Genre	Drama
Notes	Another film by the same name exists (directed by James Toback) which featured an American topic in 1999.
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