Gallipoli



Gallipoli

Introduction

The film Gallipoli is set amidst World War I during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archie and Frank. Archie and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Archie is an amazingly fast runner who meets Frank at an athletics competition. From the beginning Archie wants to join the war, and after being turned down because he was underage, he went to Perth, eager for someone to accept him into the light horsemen. Frank, however, is skeptical about Australians wanting to join the war and tells ...