updated: Apr 17, 2002
A wonderful black comedy. In the late 1940s Joan Fraser (Judy Davis) dreamt of nothing but a worker's revolution and when not campaigning for the Party spent her time writing to Josef Stalin. Her efforts did not go unnoticed and she was invited to the Kremlin where she ended up sleeping with both a double agent and Uncle Joe himself (unfortunately on the night he died). She returns to Australia pregnant but unsure of the paternity. Forty years later her son brings Australia to the brink of civil war but perhaps he has more in common with Stalin than an idealistic young revolutionary. Judy Davis won an Australian Film Institute Best Actress Award for the movie.
Nick Dorning, Wendy Sainsbury, Kirsten Veysey and Anne-Maree Hurley were creditted for prosthetic makeup.