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1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

 Australian

Cinema of Australia

Cinema of Australia, more commonly referred to as the Australian film industry, refers to the system of production, distribution, and exhibition of films in Australia. Film production commenced in Australia in 1906 with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film made...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 comprising 4 segments written

Screenplay

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 and directed

Film director

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 as independent stories, but screened together as one piece, exploring a common theme of instinctive desire and contemporary sexuality.

John B. Murray directs a segment called "The Husband", written by Craig McGregor, Tim Burstall

Tim Burstall

Tim Burstall was an Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for the motion picture Alvin Purple....

 directs "The Child", from a screenplay by Hal Porter, Fred Schepisi directs Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...

's "The Priest" and David Baker directs playwright David Williamson

David Williamson

David Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...

's screenplay for "The Family Man".

Plot

The four segments of the film average about 30 minutes in length and are presented in the following order.

• Part 1: "The Husband" - Focuses on a suburban husband and wife, their relationship and their sexual fantasies.
• Part 2: "The Child" - A lonely boy seeks revenge on a man he finds engaging in intercourse with his beloved governess.
• Part 3: "The Priest" - A priest contemplates leaving the church as a result of his indefatigable attraction to a nun.
• Part 4: "The Family Man" - The husband of a woman in labor arranges with a friend to take two women to a secluded beach house.

Awards

In 1973, the film won the Golden Reel Award for best fiction film from the Australian Film Institute

Australian Film Institute

The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...

 for the segment The Child, and Judy Morris

Judy Morris

Judy Morris is an Australian actress, film director and screenwriter, well known for the variety of roles she played in 54 different television shows and films, but most recently for co-writing a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica which became Happy Feet, Australia's largest...

won the best actress award for her performance in the same segment.

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