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Walkabout [digital videodisc] / a Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff production ; screenplay by Edward Bond ; produced by Si Litvinoff ; directed and photographed by Nicolas Roeg.

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

Siblings -- Australia -- Drama.

Abandoned children -- Australia -- Drama.

Aboriginal Australians -- Drama.

Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Drama.

Initiation rites -- Drama.

Wilderness survival -- Australia -- Drama.

Desert survival -- Australia -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 10.

2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet : color illustrations ; 19 cm)

Director-approved special ed.

Disc 1. Feature films -- Disc 2. The supplements.

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.

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