'The Nightingale' trivia and fun facts
Locations
The movie is shot in Tasmania, Australia
The right questions
Writer and director Jennifer Kent set out to ask two important questions in the film. They were: 'What are the alternatives to violence and revenge?' and 'How do we retain our humanity in dark times?'.
Based in a novel
Based on the successful 2015 novel 'The Nightingale' by Kristin Hannah.
Nothing inspires like home
The picture is the first film that producer Bruna Papandrea has made in Australia in seventeen years. In terms of her first production in Australia after a long hiatus, for Papandrea, 'The Nightingale' was the perfect film because it united many aspects of where she saw her own filmmaking, and the global need to encourage female-led and female-centered stories.
Psychological help
Clinical psychologists had to be brought on set in order to help the actors deal with filming the more brutal, traumatic scenes.
It's not a dead language yet
The language spoken by the Tasmanian Aboriginals in this film is Palawa Kani. It is near extinct and marks the first time ever spoken in a mainstream picture.
Based on difficult times
The film is set during a period known as 'The Black War', when the land in Tasmania was not safe to travel, nor easy to navigate, with huge tracks of rugged wilderness.