Van Diemen's Land is a horror movie, which is based on the true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. Written by Jonathan Auf Der Heide and Oscar Redding, directed by Jonathan Auf Der Heide. Stars: Oscar Redding as Alexander Pearce, Arthur Angel as Robert Greenhill, Paul Ashcroft as Matthew Travers, Mark Leonard Winter as Alexander Dalton, Torquil Neilson as John Mather, Greg Stone as William Kennerly, John Francis Howard as Little Brown. The flim is set to be released on September 24, 2009 (Australia).
Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding) and his infamous escape into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. 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…
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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-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.
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