Charlie (David Gulpilil) lives in a small community in Arnhem Land. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to … Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. With David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford, Lizzie Durrurrnga. Gulpilil appears in every scene in a film that starts on a light note when Charlie helps police capture two drug dealers. But even he can’t survive in the bush anymore and he falls ill with pneumonia. Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts.

As the government increases its stronghold over the community’s traditional way of life, Charlie becomes lost between two cultures. Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie (David Gulpilil) is a warrior past his prime.

Directed by Rolf de Heer. Synopsis Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie's Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. Rolf de Heer, “Charlie’s Country” (2013) A sad and compassionate film of a man’s search for identity and belonging, “Charlie’s Country” originated as a vehicle around lead actor David Gulpilil’s talents and experiences as an Aboriginal man living and passing between indigenous Australian society and Anglo-Australian society.

A sequence of events, funny yet sadly moving, drive him to eschew the community and go bush. Charlie’s Country.