Walkabout
Turkish title: Sonsuz çöl
“A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.”
1971 · 1 h 40 min
Directed by 
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas RoegCast
Jenny Agutter Lucien John David Gulpilil
Credits
Written by: Edward Bond
Plot
Two English children stranded in the Australian outback are helped by a young Aboriginal boy on his ritual walkabout.
Sinekatalog’s take
Nicolas Roeg's outback drama of stranded English children and an Aboriginal teen is hypnotic and beautiful. Its collisions of culture and nature are poetic, with images that are unforgettable.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (30,204 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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