Harlequin Limited Edition 4K UHD
'Harlequin' AKA 'Dark Forces' Director: Simon Wincer (1980) Indicator Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD
Inspired by Rasputin's influence over the Russian court, is a mysterious and fantastical Australian chiller thriller from director Simon Wincer (Snapshot) and writer Everett De Roche (Roadgames).
When eccentric faith healer Gregory Wolfe apparently cures the terminally ill son of Senator Nick Rast, Rast’s wife places her faith in Wolfe’s powers. But when Wolfe begins meddling in sensitive government business, political fixer Doc Wheelan decides to make the problem go away...
Limited Edition contents include:
- 80-page book with a new essay by Julian Upton, exclusive extracts from producer Antony I Ginnane’s unpublished memoirs, archival interviews with director Simon Wincer and art director Bernard Hides, and film credits
Special features include:
- Audio commentary with director Simon Wincer and producer Antony I Ginnane (2004)
- Archival TV interview with actors David Hemmings and Robert Powell (1980)
- Archival audio interview with Simon Wincer (1979)
- Archival audio interview with associate producer Jane Scott (1979)
- Archival audio interview with production designer Bernard Hides (1979)
- ‘Not Quite Hollywood’ Interviews (2008): extensive selection of outtakes from Mark Hartley’s acclaimed documentary on Australian cinema, featuring Wincer, Ginnane, writer Everett De Roche, and actor Gus Mercurio
- Appreciation by the academic and Australian cinema specialist Stephen Morgan (2024)
- Destruction from Down Under (2018): Kim Newman revisits the Australian genre film boom of the 1970s and 1980s
- Isolated score
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
