The Golden Cage (1975 film)

The Golden Cage
Directed by Ayten Kuyululu
Produced by Ilhan Kuyululu
Written by Ayten Kuyululu
Ismet Soydan
Starring Sait Misoglu
Music by Mary Vanderby
Aspidistra
Cinematography Russell Boyd
Edited by Harold Lander
Production
company
Independent Artists
Release dates
  • August 1975
Running time
 70 minutes
Country Australia
Language English
Turkish

The Golden Cage is a 1975 Australian film about two Turkish migrants in Australia made by the husband and wife team Ayten and Ilhan Kuyululu. It was the first Australian film directed by a woman since the 1930s.[1]

Production

The film was shot in March and April 1975, with the aid of $22,500 from the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australian Council. It failed to achieve commercial distribution.[2]

Kuyululu tried to get up a film The Battle of Broken Hill about the 1915 Battle of Broken Hill but was unable to secure finance and returned to Turkey.[1]

Phillip Noyce worked as an assistant director on the movie.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p281
  2. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 291

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