Van Diemen's Land

2009 • Directed by

Jonathan auf der Heide

Drama, History, Thriller

Hunger is a strange silence

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.