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A Fortunate Life (1986)

A Fortunate Life

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

A Fortunate Life

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Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison

as Grandma Carr

Anthony Richards

Anthony Richards

as Bert (9 Years)

Benedict Sweeney

Benedict Sweeney

as Bert (14 Years)

Dominic Sweeney

Dominic Sweeney

as Alice McCall

as Archie McCall

as Young Alice McCall

as Bert's Mother

as Charlie Bibby

as Narrator (voice)

Andrew Kovacevich

Andrew Kovacevich

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Season 1

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