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Wokabaut Bilong Tonten

1h 27m Drama 1972

A Tok Pisin drama from Papua New Guinea about a young coastal village man who travels the country searching for his lost brother-in-law.

A young man from a coastal village in Papua New Guinea searches for his missing brother-in-law after his wife dies. On his travels around the country, Tonten (Turuk Wabei) meets a Chimbu girl in the highlands and visits Port Moresby for the first time. A Tok Pisin drama based on the emergence of Papua New Guinea as an independent nation, WOKABAUT BILONG TONTEN was the first feature film shot in Papua New Guinea with an all-Indigenous cast.

Produced for the Papua New Guinea Government by Film Australia.

© National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

Director

Oliver Howes

Languages

Tok Pisin, English

Country

Australia

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