This article is about the 1977 Australian film. For the unrelated 2019 French TV series, see La Dernière Vague.
1977 Australian film
The Last Wave
Australian film poster
Directed by
Peter Weir
Screenplay by
Peter Weir
Tony Morphett
Petru Popescu
Produced by
Hal and Jim McElroy
Starring
Richard Chamberlain
Olivia Hamnett
David Gulpilil
Nandjiwarra Amagula
Cinematography
Russell Boyd
Edited by
Max Lemon
Music by
Charles Wain
Production companies
McElroy & McElroy
South Australian Film Corporation
Australian Film Commission
Ayer Productions[1]
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
13 December 1977 (1977-12-13)
Running time
106 minutes
Country
Australia
Language
English
Budget
A$818,000[2]
Box office
A$1.258 million (Australia)
$866,250 (US)[3]
The Last Wave (also released in the United States as Black Rain) is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir.[4][5] It is about a white solicitor in Sydney whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case and discovers that he shares a strange, mystical connection with the small group of local Aboriginal people accused of the crime.
^The Last Wave (Image Gallery) (Blu-ray). Umbrella Entertainment. 2020. Event occurs at 0:02:15. DAVID4174.
^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 321-322
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