# L'ultima onda (1977)

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**Original title**: *The Last Wave*
**Runtime**: 106 min
**Genres**: Drama, Mystery, Horror
**Directed by**: Peter Weir
**Written by**: Peter Weir, Petru Popescu, Tony Morphett
**Starring**: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Athol Compton

> *Hasn't the weather been strange ...could it be a warning?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Sydney. Perpetual twilight. A drowned man.

A corporate lawyer takes on a case defending Aboriginal men accused of murder. Torrential rains, waking nightmares, and tribal elders conspire to reveal a deeper, shared destiny.

Weir’s sun-baked, rain-soaked mystery offers more than cheap thrills.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn, surreal

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