See also: Weir

Peter Weir is a Réalisateur Australia N born with Sydney, Australia the August 21st 1944.

After a short passage to the University of Sydney and a first voyage to London which enables him to meet his future wife, Peter Weir exerts various small trades for television. Starting from 1967, it works for chain ATN-7 of Sydney where it carries out its first two short-measurings Count Vim' S Last Exercise and The Life and Flight off Reverend Buckshotte .

In 1971, it receives the Grand Prix of Australian Film Institute for humorous means-measuring Homesdale . For all this period it turns also several documentary for the the Commonwealth Film Links .

Its first feature-length film in 1973 the cars which ate Paris is a mixture of film of horror, thriller and fantastic. Its second film Pique-nique in Hanging Rock will be an enormous success in Australia. It is an quasi-oneiric film on the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls in 1900 in Hanging Rock. One finds a little the same atmosphere in his following film the Last Wave which treats interactions between the cultures indigenous and European on bottom of investigation on a murder.

Gallipoli (1981) is a film of war more direct and spectacular on a battle of the First World War. Mel Gibson holds one of the two main roles to with it. One finds Mel Gibson accompanied by Sigourney Weaver in the Year of all the dangers in 1982. Peter Weir approaches there the topic of the initiatory discovery of a foreign world which returns in several of its works (here Indonesia the day before a coup d'etat in 1965).

Following the international success met by his last films, Peter Weir leaves to continue his career in the United States with Witness in 1985 and Mosquito Coast the following year, two films with Harrison Ford in the high-speed motorboat in unusual roles for him. Witness - on the Amish community - will be rewarded by César for best foreign film and eight quotations with the American Oscars.

the Circle of the missing poets with Robin Williams will be an important popular success in 1989 and Green Card (1990) a pleasant romantic comedy with Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. Its following film State second in 1993 where a survivor with an air crash (Jeff Bridges) revalues his life, will be a small disappointment.

Popular success and critical will return with The Truman Show (1998) where Jim Carrey is, in truth, prisoner of a program of TV-reality.

The last film in date of Peter Weir is Master and to order: On the other side of the world left in 2003 - a naval epopee with Russell Crowe - which is once again an enormous success.

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