Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs
  • Release date: 13 Jul 1978
  • Release year: 1977
  • Runtime: 107 minutes
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Keywords: civil war, fascism, fascist government, dystopian future, speculative fiction, rebel group, unwilling participant, protagonist killed, cold war, unhappy ending
Plot:
Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between leftist guerillas and the New Zealand government. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to avoid violence while caught between warring sides.
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