Silver City (1984 film)

Silver City is a 1984 Australian film about postwar Polish immigration to Australia, following World War II. Silver City is the nickname of the immigration hostel in Australia. David Stratton calls it one of the best Australian films of the 1980s and thought that it should have made Gosia Dobrowolska a major star.

During the early 1980s Long and Turkiewicz became frustrated at the progress of getting up the film and for a time developed another project, Times Raging based on stories by Frank Moorhouse but eventually went back to Silver City. The Money was eventually raised through 10BA tax concessions.Gosia Dobrowolska, who had newly arrived in Australia, auditioned for the lead and impressed despite not knowing any English. However she struggled at a reading of the script and the role was given to Megan Williams instead. Then there was a delay in financing which put the film back a year. Dobrowolska improved her English and impressed the director and producer in a play she was appearing in Williams was let go and Dobrowolska was cast. Williams later sued and the matter settled out of court. ........

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