True Believers (miniseries)
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True Believers is a 1988 Australian miniseries which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War II up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.[2]
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True Believers | |
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Genre | Miniseries |
Written by | Bob Ellis Stephen Ramsay |
Directed by | Peter Fisk |
Starring | Ed Devereaux Simon Chilvers John Bonney |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Stephen O'Rourke executive Matt Carroll Sandra Levy |
Running time | 8 x 1 hour |
Budget | $3.6 million[1] |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 28 June (1988-06-28) ā 16 August 1988 (1988-08-16) |
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It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."[3]