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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Dunera Boys, The

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    1 9 8 5 (Australia)
    2 x 120 minute episodes

    At the start of WWII, the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been here. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated, but who the British feared might be German spies.

    This miniseries records the true story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the HMT Dunera – one of the greatest influxes of academic and artistic talent to have entered Australia on a single vessel.

    Cafe owner and concert hall violinist Alex Engelhart (Joseph Spano) had escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria and made it to England, where he thought his troubles were over. Unfortunately, he is rounded up with other Jewish refugees and shipped off to Australia.

    During their three years in a POW camp in far western NSW, the Dunera boys prove to be model prisoners. Over time the rules of the prison are relaxed and the refugees are able to integrate into the local community.

    Bob Hoskins and Warren Mitchell are exceptional.

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    Many of the real Dunera internees returned to Britain to fight in the war, but others remained in Australia and later became notable contributors to that nation’s scientific, business, academic and cultural communities. A number of them were awarded the Order of Australia later on in their lives.

    Also among those on the Dunera were Franz Stampfl, who helped coach the athlete Roger Bannister to the world’s first sub-four-minute mile and Anton Walter Freud, grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

    Alexander Engelhardt
    Joseph Spano
    Morrie Mendellsohn
    Bob Hoskins
    The Baron
    Joseph Fürst
    Naomi Mendellsohn
    Mary-Anne Fahey
    Colonel Berry
    Simon Chilvers
    Tropp
    Steven Vidler
    Rabbi Aronfeld
    Moshe Kedem
    Brigadier Templeton
    John Meillon
    Mr. Baum
    Warren Mitchell
    Friedkin
    Paul Mason
    Captain Webber
    Kirk Alexander
    Mum
    Julia Blake
    Artaker
    Max Bruch
    Kath
    Sally Cooper
    Aviam
    Marcel Cugola
    Corporal Carter
    Maurie Fields
    Private Bruce
    Kim Gyngell 
    Captain Minter
    Stephen Kearney
    Wally Dunstan
    Mark Little
    Lippe
    Alan Levy
    Max
    Henry Maas
    Roth
    Alex Menglet
    Slattery
    Wyn Roberts
    Axelrod
    Dalibor Satalic
    Private Kerwin
    Ed Turley
    Abe Joelstein
    Bruno Lucia

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