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Gallipoli (1981 film)
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Gallipoli (1981 film)
Gallipoli
is a 1981 Australian drama war film directed by
Peter Weir
and produced by
Patricia Lovell
and
Robert Stigwood
, starring
Mel Gibson
and
Mark Lee
, about several rural
Western Australian
young men who enlist in the
Australian Army
during the
First World War
. They are sent to the
peninsula of Gallipoli
in the
Ottoman Empire
(in modern-day
Turkey
), where they take part in the
Gallipoli Campaign
. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the
Anzac
battlefield at
Gallipoli
and depicts the futile attack at the
Battle of the Nek
on 7 August 1915.
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