A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life

Limited Series 1986 · 4 eps · ★ 5.0 · Drama

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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.

Directed by Henri Safran · Written by Ken Kelso

Network: Nine Network

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