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Director
  
Bert Deling

Screenplay
  
Bert Deling

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producer
  
Bert Deling

Writer
  
Bert Deling

Language
  
English

Dalmas (film) movie poster

Release date
  
November 1973

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Cast
  
Roger Ward
(Policeman),
John Duigan
(Film Director),
Max Gillies
(Rojack),
Peter Cummins
(Plastic Man),
Peter Whittle
(Dalmas)

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Dalmas is a 1973 Australian film directed by Bert Deling. One critic wrote that "with Dave Jones’ Yackety Yack [the film] constitutes the clearest presence of Godard in Australian cinema."

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Plot

An ex-cop, Pete Dalmas, is pursuing a drug runner Mr Big. He visits another ex-cop, Rojack, who has become a drug addict. Rojack gives him a lead to a drug dealer called the Plastic Man. He follows the Plastic Man to a seaside camp and the film turns into a film about the making of the film, with the director and actors discussing filmmaking and drugs.

Cast

  • Peter Whittle as Dalmas
  • Peter Cummins as Plastic Man
  • Max Gillies as Rojack
  • John Duigan as film director
  • Roger Ward as policeman
  • Tribe
  • Production

    The film was shot over four years. Half the budget was provided by the Experimental Film and Television Fund.

    Many people who worked on it were associated with the Pram Factory Theatre in Melbourne.

    Release

    The movie was not widely screened however it was given a commercial season at the Australia Twin Cinema in Melbourne.

    References

    Dalmas (film) Wikipedia
    Dalmas (film) IMDb Dalmas (film) themoviedb.org