Picnic at Hanging Rock

Haifa's wildest nights

Archive - Festival 41

Australian fever dream still dazzling 50 years on

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 41
  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Australia 1975
  • 107 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

50th Anniversary

To mark the 50th anniversary of Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Haifa Festival is screening the cult film that put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Ravishingly beautiful and thoroughly mysterious, Picnic has mesmerized audiences since its release and influenced generations of filmmakers.

St Valentine’s Day, 1900. On a stifling summer day, a party of boarders at an exclusive College and their chaperones, travel to the magnificent ancient rock formation at Mt. Macedon. When one of the teachers and three of the senior girls vanish during the course of the afternoon, their disappearance sets off a chain of disquieting and tragic events.

Filmography: The Truman Show (1998), Dead Poets Society (1989), Witness (1985).


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  • Director Peter Weir
  • Production Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy
  • Script Cliff Green, based on the novel by Joan Lindsay
  • Cinematography Russell Boyd
  • Editing Max Lemon
  • Music Bruce Smeaton, Flûte de Pan played by Gheorghe Zamfir
  • Festivals Toronto
  • Actors Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver
  • Source The Festival Agency