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''Anzacs'' (named for members of the all volunteer ANZAC army formations) was a 1985 5-part Australian television miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion (Australia) of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war. It follows in the wake of Australian New Wave war films such as ''Breaker Morant'' (1980), ''Gallipoli'' (1981), and precedes ''The Lighthorsemen'' (1987). Recurring themes of these films include the Australian identity, such as mateship and larrikinism, the loss of innocence in war, and also the continued coming of age of the Australian nation and its soldiers (the ANZAC spirit). ==Cast== The mini-series included Paul Hogan, of ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' fame as Lance Corporal Pat Cleary, Jon Blake (''The Lighthorsemen'') as Captain Flanagan, Andrew Clarke (TV's ''The Man from Snowy River'') as Captain Martin Barrington, and Megan Williams (TV's ''The Sullivans'') as Nurse Kate Baker. Other actors of note included: * David Bradshaw as Keith Murdoch * Bill Kerr as General John Monash * Tony Bonner as Captain Harold Armstrong * Shane Briant as Sergeant Wilhelm "Kaiser" Schmidt * Christopher Cummins as Private Roly Collins * Peter Finlay as Lance Corporal "Bluey" * Mark Hembrow as Corporal Dick Baker * Jim Holt as Private Dinny "Dingo" Gordon * Jonathan Sweet as Company Sergeant Major Bill Harris * Patrick Ward as Sergeant Tom McArthur * Alec Wilson as Private "Pudden" Parsons * Edmund Pegge as Captain Young * David Lynch as Lieutenant Max Earnshaw * Wayne Jarratt as Private Upton * Karl Hansen as Private Erik Johansen * Tony Cornwill as Private Karl Johansen * Peter Browne as Private Carter * Terry Brittingham as Private Morrissey * James Wright as Major 'Edward Kelly' * Vincent Ball as Sir Rupert Barrington * Ilona Rodgers as Lady Thea Barrington * Robert Coleby as Reverend Lonsdale * Sheila Kennelly as Mrs Baker * Howard Bell as Cyril Earnshaw * Diana Greentree as Mrs Collins * Elaine Lee as Madame * Leah Steventon as Marie * Vivean Gray as Matron * Mark Mitchell as a dying German soldier * Bruce Kerr as Lancashire Colonel * Gareth Wilding-Forbes as Buffs Officer * Chris Gregory as German Sergeant * Noel Trevarthen as Field Marshal Douglas Haig * Michael Adams as General Kiggell * Rhys McConnochie as Lloyd George, British War Secretary, then Prime Minister from December 1916 * Malcolm Robertson as General Bridges * Sean Myers as Lt-General Walker * Reg Evans as General Birdwood * Chris Waters as General White * Francis Bell as Major-General 'Pompey' Elliott * Geoff Parry as General Blamey 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anzacs (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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