Always Afternoon

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox television | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = | creator = | based_on = {{Based on|''Always Afternoon''|Gwen Kelly}} | writer = David Stevens | screenplay = | story = | director = David Stevens | starring = Tushka Bergen Jochen Horst Lisa Harrow Marshall Napier | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | country = Australia West Germany | language = English German | num_episodes = 4 x 1 hour | producer = Henry Crawford | editor = | cinematography = | runtime = | company = | budget = $4.3 million<ref name="scott"/> | network = SBS | first_aired = {{Start date|1988|03|07|df=y}} | last_aired = {{End date|1988|03|08|df=y}} }} '''''Always Afternoon''''' is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia,<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p173</ref> set in 1914 at Trial Bay Gaol in New South Wales.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/always-afternoon-1988/424/|title=Always Afternoon (1988)|last=|first=|date=|website=The Screen Guide|publisher=Screen Australia|access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref> The series was based on a novel by Gwen Kelly and depicts a love story involving an Australian woman and a German violinist.<ref name=":0" /> It was a co-production between Germany and Australia.<ref name="moran">Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 59</ref>

It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson.<ref>[http://www.rosswatson.com/paintings/always_afternoon/always_afternoon.asp Series at Ross Watson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224202448/http://www.rosswatson.com/paintings/always_afternoon/always_afternoon.asp |date=24 February 2012 }} accessed 3 August 2013</ref>

==Cast== * Tushka Bergen as Frieda Kennon * Jochen Horst as Franz Muller * Lisa Harrow as Nancy Kennon * Marshall Napier as Bill Kennon * Wynn Roberts as Pastor Jules * Christopher Mayer as Bob * Ben Becker as Ernst * {{ill|Dieter Kirchlechner|de}} as Kurt Schreiber * Alex Menglet as Hans Weissmuller * Colette Mann as Doreen

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0092543}} *[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C799072 ''Always Afternoon''] at AustLit

Category:Australian television films Category:1980s Australian television miniseries