True Believers | |
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Genre | Miniseries |
Written by |
Bob Ellis Stephen Ramsay |
Directed by | Peter Fisk |
Starring |
Ed Devereaux Simon Chilvers |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Stephen O'Rourke executive Matt Carroll Sandra Levy |
Running time | 8 x 1 hour |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | 28 June 1988 |
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
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."
Filmed on location at The Zig Zag Railway Lithgow, the steam locomotive used was 1072 x Queensland locomotive, South Australian carriages were utilised for some scenes these were stationary for filming. The area at bottom points and the depot became the set, the carriages lost in a bush fire in 2013.
location: Zig Zag Railway Lithgow