A Fortunate Life

A slow, earnest chronicle of hardship endured with quiet endurance, moving from dusty labour to the mud of war.

Created by

Henri Safran, Marcus Cole

Genres

Drama

Starring

Dorothy Allison, Dale Randall, John Ley

Overview

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.

How it feels

Measured and needs your attention.

About

Survival, class, family, war

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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