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| Stateless started last month in Australia |
Some ten years ago Cornelia Rau, a woman of German Australian origin, languished in terrible conditions in a detention centre, marked for deportation. Mentally ill and unable to communicate her true identity, it took 10 months to discover she was an Australian resident. Her case shocked Australia showing the lacks of both immigration department, and its inhumane detention policy, and their mental healthcare system. Australian's ABC's mini series
STATELESS is inspired by her case and the cases of countless other stateless people who were or are locked indefinitely in detention centres around the world viewed as just
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| Cate Blanchett both produces and stars in the mini series |
statistics.The six episode series starring
Cate Blanchett, Dominic West, Jai Courtney and
Yvonne Strahovski, aired Down Under in March and will also stream on
Netflix for viewers around the world.
Stateless Centres On four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert: an airline hostess escaping a suburban cult (
Yvonne Strahovski), an Afghan refugee (
Fayssal Bazzi) fleeing persecution, a young Australian father
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| Jai Courtney plays a new guard at the inhumane detention centre |
escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal. When their lives intersect they are pushed to the brink of sanity, yet unlikely
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| Dominic West is the leader of a strange cult |
and profound emotional connections are made amongst the group.
Jai Courtney is Cam, a new guard, under qualified and under trained, whose own sense of right and wrong clashes with the brutal and dehumanising
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| The series first premiered at the 70th Berlin Film Festival |
tactics employed by his colleagues.
Dominic West plays the charismatic leader of the self-help cult masquerading as a dance collective with
Cate Blanchett as his wife Pat who first take Strahovski's character Sofie in but things turn ugly fast.
