‘I saw grown men weeping’: the filming of Gallipoli – Daily Telegraph

Forty years after the release of the iconic Australian war film, leading man Mark Lee talks about the moment he realised he was part of movie-making magic with fellow actor Mel Gibson, and remembers the poignant day he finally visited the site of the battle.It wasn’t until six weeks after they had started filming that the filmmakers realised they were doing something special. A typical Australian film would have already wrapped by then. But this was no typical Australian film.
It was Gallipoli,…

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