Long ago, Australian filmmakers discovered that it was the issuesof universal interest that could ensure worldwide success of their films. One ofsuch issues was the leftwing youth protests expressing the unwillingness of theyoung people to live according to the rules of the older generation. These protestspeaked in the late 1960s and immediately found their way onto the screen. Theimportance of the problem ensured an almost inevitable international successof the films which dealt with those events.Yet there was another reason for the close attention paid by Australianfilmmakers to the May 1968 events. Many of them (including the authors ofthe analyzed films) matured during those tempestuous years. Like many youngpeople in Europe, they were fed up with the hypocrisy and lies of the oldergeneration. They wanted to believe that changes were about to come. Whatinterests the filmmakers of today is not so much the leftist movement itselfor the revolt of the young against the society of their fathers but the resultswhich transpired twenty years after the events, following the disillusionmentand the shipwreck of youthful hopes. Some found solace in conformism andindifference, others in despair and nihilism.But luckily the filmmakers saw a third path: that of love and care for thedestitute; and, by consequence, that of the belief in the coming changes for thebetter