The Leaving of Liverpool (1992)
The Leaving of Liverpool (1992)
DVDRip | AVI | p1/p2: 672x368/640x352 | XviD @ p1/p2: 1428/1077 Kbps | 202 min | 2,19 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ p1/p2: 128/448 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | p1/p2: 672x368/640x352 | XviD @ p1/p2: 1428/1077 Kbps | 202 min | 2,19 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ p1/p2: 128/448 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Jenkins
Writers: John Alsop, Sue Smith
Stars: Kevin Knapman, Christine Tremarco, Frances Barber
Two English children are uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
IMDB - 5 wins
'The Leaving of Liverpool' brings into the open one of the UK's greatest shames of how young children, orphans or those who had the misfortune to hail from lower class homes, were snatched from all that they knew and loved to be transported to far-flung countries such as Australia, Canada and South Africa. This was not a government-sanctioned crime of the Victorian era but happened between the late Forties right up until the relatively recent Sixties.
This BBC TV drama follows the plight of twelve-year-old sweethearts Bert and Lily and their young friends as they are wrenched from their native Liverpool and transported to lead harsh new lives in Australia, a country so hot and unfamiliar to children who had never been outside their own city before let alone travelled to a foreign country.
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The Leaving of Liverpool (1992)
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