Celia [1988]

Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production: 1988
Running Times: 103 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Seon Film Productions
Executive Producer: Bryce Menzies
Producers: Gordon Glenn, Timothy White
Associate Producer: Ian Pringle
Production Manager: Lynda House
Unit Manager: Leigh Ammitzboll

SCRIPT
Script: Ann Turner
Script Consultant: Sue Smith

DIRECTION
Director: Ann Turner
1st Assistant Director: Phil Jones
2nd Assistant Director: Chris Odgers

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Geoffrey Simpson
2nd Unit Director of Photography: James Grant
Focus Puller: Martin Turner
Gaffer: Trevor Toune
Best Boy: Werner Gerlach
Key Grip: Brendan Shanley
Edge Numbering: Oliver Streeton

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Ken Sallows

MUSIC
Music: Chris Neal

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Lloyd Carrick
Boom Operator: Chris Goldsmith
Foley Editor: Tim Chau

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Rose Chong

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Peta Lawson
Props Buyers: Murray Kelly, Harvey Mawson

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Julie Bates
Production Runner: Lisa Chambers

LOCATIONS
Locations: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Location Manager: Daniel Scharf

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks: Jackie McKimmie; Michael Jenkins; Penny Chapman

CASTING
Extras Casting: Kelly O'Shea

CAST
Rebecca Smart [Celia Carmichael]
Nicholas Eadie [Ray Carmichael]
Victoria Longley [Alice Tanner]
Mary-Anne Fahey [Pat Carmichael]
Margaret Ricketts [grandmother]
Alexander Hutchinson [Steve Tanner]
Adrian Mitchell [Karl Tanner]
Callie Gray [Meryl Tanner]
Martin Sharman [Evan Tanner]
Clair Couttie [Heather Goldman]
Alex Menglet [Mr Goldman]
Amelia Frid [Stephanie Burke]
William Zappa [Inspector John Burke]
Feon Keane [Soapy Burke]
Louise Le Nay [Debbie Burke]
Shannon McNamara [Slim]
Luke Mathews [White Knight]
Deborra-Lee Furness [Miss Greenway]
Irene Inescort [Mrs Casey]
Myles Sharpe [Vicar Mitchell]
Philip Holder [Vicar Shaw]
Bruno Annetta [Hobyah]
Nicholas Trinder, Kim Lardner, James Newman, Raymond Arfoui [Hobyah's pack]
Peter Lindsay [Mike Mayfield]
Don Kinsey [newsreel voice]
Dan Webb [radio voice]
Ian Catchlove [newsreel official]
Ernest Wilson [little old man]
Reg Evans [Jack]
Robin Cuming [doctor]
John Arnold [detective]
David Burnett [police officer]
David Ashton [pet shop owner]
Steve Payne [government official]
Caroline Marcelle [baby Celia Carmichael]

SUMMARY

Nine-year-old girl Celia is growing up in 1950's Australia with the threat of international Communism ever-present in the background. Her schoolfriends' families are all Communist sympathizers and her father won't let her mix with them, giving her instead a pet rabbit she calls Murgatroyd, her only friends other than the fantasy frindships she strikes up with her dead grandmother and mythical monsters called Hobyahs. But when her father takes the rabbit away again, Celia starts plotting her revenge...

TIMELINE

1989
October
5: West Germany - theatrical release

1990
June
1: Netherlands - theatrical release

1993
December
24: Sweden - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The eerie, chilling tale of one child's terror.

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Celia - Child of Terror - advertising title

REFERENCES

NEWSPAPERS

Svenska Dagbladet 24 December 1993 [Sweden]
review [Tuff nioårig flicka tränger sig fram by Anna Ångström]

KEYWORDS

children, communisn, imaginary friends, rabbits

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007