The Year of Living Dangerously

1982 6.6 (336 votes) 1h 55m

Genres

Romance Drama

Production Companies

McElroy & McElroy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Freddie Fields Productions

The Year of Living Dangerously

A love caught in the fire of revolution.

Overview

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.