Cloudstreet (TV series)

Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened fromMay 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an awardwinning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.

Cloudstreet is set firmly in a particular period of Australian history, from the mid1940s to late 50s. Although world events influence the Lambs and Pickles, the novel focuses on the domestic and personal lives of the protagonists. The period is carefully recreated, and never deviates from the lives of the families. A motif that recurs throughout the series involves the stolen generations of Aboriginal children, some of whom were long before harshly treated in the house.Three generations of the Sydneybased Haddrick family were involved in the production of Cloudstreet Ron Haddrick as the narrator Greg Haddrick as producer and Milly Haddrick as an actress. ........

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