The Harp in the South (1987)

9.0/10 243 min Drama

Overview

We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.

Cast

Anne Phelan

Mumma

Anna Hruby

Roie

Kaarin Fairfax

Dolour

Gwen Plumb

Grandma

Martyn Sanderson

Hughie Darcy

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