A Fortunate Life

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.

• Henri SafranDirector
• Ken KelsoWriter
• Marcus ColeDirector

• Dorothy AllisonGrandma Carr
• Dale RandallRoy Facey
• John LeyEric Facey
• Anthony RichardsBert (9 Years)
• Benedict SweeneyBert (14 Years)
• Dominic SweeneyBert
• Pat BishopAlice McCall
• Paul SonkkilaArchie McCall
• Jeffrey RhoeJock McKay
• Maurie OgdenCop
• Leslie WrightJack Lander
• Raelene HughesYoung Alice McCall