Along with playing the lead role, writer/director Leah Purcell makes
her feature debut with The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson. It's the third time Purcell has adapted Henry Lawson's 1892 short story, having previously turning it into
a novel and play.
The film sees Purcell play Molly Johnson, a pregnant frontierswoman who
gives shelter to an aborigine fugitive.
Rob Collins, Sam Reid and Jessica De Gouw also star.
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is in UK/ROI
cinemas from May 13th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Set in 1893 on an isolated property in the Australian Alpine Country of the Snowy Mountains, a heavily pregnant Molly Johnson has a secret she must keep buried. While her drover husband is away, she and her children struggle to survive. Molly finds herself in a desperate situation and is confronted by a fugitive Aboriginal man, Yadaka, on her property. Unbeknownst to Molly, Yadaka is a wanted man who will bring undesired attention. When new town up-holder of law, Nate Clintoff, learns Molly’s drover husband is missing and sends a trooper out to her property to investigate, a chain of ruinous events is triggered.
