Jedda

An aboriginal girl is brought up by a white family that adopts her. As a young woman, she is mysteriously drawn to go "Walkabout" as people of her tribe have for hundreds of years.

Cast

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

as Jedda

Robert Tudawali

as Marbuck

Betty Suttor

as Sarah McMann

Paul Reynall

as Joe

George Simpson-Lyttle

as Douglas McMann

Margaret Dingle

as Little Jedda

Willie Farrar

as Little Joe

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