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Title Mike and Stefani
Copyright Title Mike and Stefani
Released 1952
Production Year 1949
Director R Williams
Countries of Production Australia, Austria
Comments Running length: 57 mins.



Format: 16mm/35mm/VHS







Neo Realist Docu-drama







Although critically lauded, this film was never widely promoted or given a commercial release.







Public Screenings:







1951 – sent to the Edinburgh Film Festival, although it may not have been screened.







1951 - Awarded the major prize at the Jubilee Film competition (held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Federation) in Melbourne.







1952 – Olinda Film Festival, Victoria







October 1953 - three night screening at the Village theatre, Watson’s Bay, Sydney. This was an independent theatre, which specialised in 'Continental' films.







Sydney Film Festival, 1975 (as part of the Australian Feature Films Retrospective 1911-1971)







Melbourne Film Festival, 1991 – Film Australia retrospective season.















Synopsis Set in the late 1940s, the story follows the lives of a Ukranian couple, Mike and Stefani, separated by war and taken away to separate German labour camps.







With the declaration of peace, Stefani finds herself one of eight million 'displaced persons' in Europe. She is reunited with Mike in a refugee camp and they remain there for several years, afraid to return to their homeland, which is now under communist rule.







When the refugee camps are disbanded in the late 1940s, Mike and Stefani seek to re-settle in Australia. The couple endure a gruelling interrogation from an Australian immigration selection officer, before eventually being accepted and join a migrant ship bound for Australia.



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