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The 39th Battalion (aka Kokoda)
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The 39th Battalion (aka Kokoda)

Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon & Simon Stone

Customer rating on The 39th Battalion (aka Kokoda): 3 out of 5 stars ( 1 customer rating )

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New Guinea, 1942, Allied Australia is at war with Japan.

A small platoon of reservist Australian soldiers have been sent as an advanced patrol up the Kokoda trail - a critical supply line that separates Australia from full blown invasion.
After sustained bombardment from the Japanese, the men are cut off from their supply lines. Isolated in the jungle behind enemy lines, they must make their way back through the most unforgiving terrain on earth to reunite with the main body of Australian troops.

After three days without food or sleep, carrying their wounded and suffering the horrifying effects of dysentery and malaria, they emerge from the jungle exhausted to the point of collapse. But on learning that Isurava is about to fall they pick themselves up and rejoin the battle...

Inspired by real events and the Kokoda / Isurava memorial inscription of 'courage, mateship, endurance and sacrifice', Kokoda evokes the visceral and terrifying realities of warfare and their devastating effects on the human condition.

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Customer rating on The 39th Battalion (aka Kokoda): 3 out of 5 stars

Average rating (1 review)

Customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars average

dashwood | 09/09/2008 | See all dashwood's reviews (23) »

Reading up on this film I found that it's budget had been cut and that the actors were all relative newcomers, so pehaps that and a rather stilted script were to blame for it's rather insipid t.v movie feel.
A very valid subject for a film, the last 10 minutes only really do justice to the grim, oft forgotten struggle in New Guinea. Nevertheless worth a watch.

Technical Details

 

Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon, Simon Stone, Luke Ford, Tom Budge, Steve Le Marquand, Angus Sampson, Christopher Baker, Ewen Leslie, Ben Barrack, Shane Bourne, William McInnes, Darren Taylor, Lucas Stibbard & Jeffey Gunn

Alister Grierson

15 years and over

2006

Dolby Digital (5.1)

1 hour 32 minutes (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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