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The Last Wave (1977)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip 'A dream is a shadow'

Original classification rating: PG. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) asks Chris Lee (David Gulpilil) and tribal elder Charlie (Nandjiwarra Amagula) what caused the death of Billy. David’s wife (Olivia Hamnett) must leave before they will speak. Chris then says that Billy saw and touched sacred things he had no right to handle – the same objects that David has seen in his own troubled dreams.