Series·1988·1 Season
The True Believers
Directed By
Peter Fisk
Country
AU
Language
English
Episodes
8
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The Story
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."
Written By
Bob Ellis, John Lonie, Stephen Ramsay
Producer
Matt Carroll, Sandra Levy
Themes
Audience Score
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Cast
Ed Devereaux
Ben Chifley
John Bonney
Robert Menzies
Simon Chilvers
H.V. Evatt
John Derum
B.A. Santamaria
Graham Rouse
Arthur Fadden
Nick Tate
Les Hayden
Gary Files
Fred Daly
Stuart McCreery
Allan Dalziel
Mary-Lou Stewart
Joanna Malcolm
Dorothy St. Heaps
Elizabeth Chifley
Leonie-Martin Smith
Ethel Casey
Hec Macmillan
Sir William McKell
Peter Corbett
John Dedman
Michelle Marzo
Rosalind Evatt
Paul Hunt
John Burton
Harold Hopkins
Edgar Ross
Paul Sonkkila
Ron Tate
Bill Young
Jim Cooper
// crew
Crew
Bob Ellis
Writer
John Lonie
Writer
Stephen Ramsay
Writer
Matt Carroll
Writer, Executive Producer
Peter Fisk
Director
Graham Tickle
Editor
Cathy Forster
Editor
Sandra Levy
Executive Producer
Bruce Liebau
Producer
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