The story takes place on a film set in World War I. It is about two close friends : Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee) who join the Australian army and fight in deadly battles. What danger must they face for survival?
27 February 1940, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
19 January 1938, Footscray, Victoria, Australia
27 March 1928, England, UK
11 November 1937, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
6 March 1944, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
8 March 1940, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1 June 1928, Dodnadatta, Australia
1958, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
29 June 1907, UK
July 07, 2010
Gallipoli is Australia's quintessential war movie that works as a stirring tribute to the ANZAC's and a condemnation of the travesty which is war.
May 20, 2003
Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.
August 18, 2016
Is not just a war film, it aims to be much more than a personal self-improvement story. [Full review in Spanish]
January 18, 2010
Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.
December 19, 2010
Set in 1915, Weir's excellent anti-war film centers on the disastrous battle of Gallipoli, featuring an excellent performance by Mel Gibson as a young fleet-footed soldier
March 03, 2006
One of the best war films ever made....a triumph for the AFI
October 11, 2005
Weir goes so far in humanizing Archy and Frank before they head off to the dehumanizing crucible of combat that he commits the greatest sin of all... he's boring
January 18, 2010
The friendship between town and country boys Lee and Gibson is real and personal, and the final shot transcends cliche.
January 18, 2010
Both a fitting testimony to the courage of the thousands of Australians and New Zealanders who died fighting for their country and one of the most powerful cinematic examinations of the futility and tragic cost of war.
July 19, 2004
haunting and powerful
June 24, 2006
The central section devoted to training in Egypt sags badly through its crass buddy antics and its crude caricatures of wogs and pommies.
November 18, 2010
... deflated the romantic notions of glory under fire to show the reality of Gallipoli and mourn the men who gave up their lives for a war they had no stake in.
