- HD 1080
- Runtime: 106m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Australia
- Director: Peter Weir
- Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray
- keywords: australia, beach, dreams, nightmare, court, voodoo, paranoia, rain, sign, premonition, lawyer, shaman, storm, manslaughter, aborigine, tribal ritual
- Production_studio: Australian Film Commission, McElroy & McElroy, Derek Power, South Australian Film Corporation, Last Wave Productions
- Slogan: Hasn't the weather been strange...could it be a warning?
- providers: Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
- The The Last Wave is featured in the top rankings of 1977
- #54 in Top Drama Movies of 1977
- #3 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1977
- #6 in Top Mystery Movies of 1977
Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
