Turtle Beach

Overview

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to secretly land, in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.

Directed by Stephen Wallace

Top cast

Greta Scacchi

Judith

Victoria Longley

Sancha

Jack Thompson

Ralph

Art Malik

Kanan

Joan Chen

Minou

Martin Jacobs

Richard

Kee Chan

Behzad

Norman Kaye

Hobday

William McInnes

Minder

George Whaley

Bill

D

Daniel De Leur

Peter

C

Celia Wong

Amah

Monroe Reimers

Mohammed

Stuart Campbell

Nigel

Patrick Dickson

Julian

F

François Bocquet

French reporter #1

V

Véronique Bernard

French reporter #2

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