At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
as Grandma Carr
as Roy Facey
as Eric Facey
as Bert (9 Years)
as Bert (14 Years)
as Bert
as Alice McCall
as Archie McCall
as Jock McKay
as Cop
as Jack Lander
as Young Alice McCall
as Bert's Mother
as Bad Bob
as Charlie Bibby
as Narrator (voice)
