Hostage_(1983_film)

<i>Hostage</i> (1983 film)

Hostage (1983 film)

1983 Australian film

Hostage (also known as Savage Attraction) is a 1983 Australian crime film based on a true story.

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Plot synopsis

Based on actual events, Christine Lewis is a teenager living in Wollongong in the 1970s and ends up marrying a sadistic German bank robber named Walter Maresch.[2]

Cast

  • Kerry Mack as Christine Maresch
  • Ralph Schicha as Walter Maresch
  • Michael Harrs as John Hoffman
  • Clare Binney as Freda Hoffman
  • Doris Goddard as Mrs. Hoffman
  • Judy Nunn as Mrs. Lewis
  • Henk Johannes as Wolfgang
  • Burt Cooper as Helmut
  • Ian Mortimer as Gary
  • The Shamoroze family

References

  1. [1]
    "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2012
  2. [2]
    David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p266


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