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Crocodile Dreaming

Crocodile Dreaming

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2006

Runtime

0h 27m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

Original Title

Crocodile Dreaming

Production Companies

Ronin Films, Australian Film Commission

Director

Darlene Johnson

Description

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.