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A principios del siglo XX, Un ex guerrillero boer en Nueva Zelanda debe capturar y custodiar a un maorí acusado falsamente de asesinar a un oficial británico. Cuando consigue capturarlo, surge una relación de amistad y respeto, pero entonces deberán hacer frente a un comando de soldados británicos empeñados en ahorcar al maorí.
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Colonización inglesa de Nueva Zelanda, 1868. Durante la guerra entre británicos y nativos maoríes, la vida de una joven irlandesa (Samantha Morton) se ve desgarrada cuando su hijo es secuestrado por su abuelo maorí. La búsqueda del niño será para ella una auténtica odisea.
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John Groberg, un chico granjero de Idaho, cruza el océano para hacerse misionero en el remoto reino de Tonga durante los años cincuenta. Atrás dejó a su familia y al amor de su vida, la joven y bella Jean Sabin. Es 1953, y el joven universitario John es enviado como misionero a una lejana isla de la Polinesia. Tras un largo viaje, llega a un nuevo mundo, habitado por gentes muy distintas a las que él había conocido, y a un entorno paradisíaco que poco a poco irá descubriendo de la mano de un nativo que le enseña a vivir fantásticas experiencias
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After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
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Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.
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In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
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Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of swimmers. A wordless, strikingly choreographed conflict ensues as Dorothy attempts to assert herself against the dehumanised aggression of the swimmers.
Art Direction
Tras el ataque de unos sanguinarios piratas a una isla del Pacífico Sur, éstos dan por muerto al futuro reverendo Nathaniel "Nat" Williamson (Michael O'Keefe), y secuestran a su bella prometida (Jenny Seagrove). La única esperanza de Nate para lograr rescatarla reside en una inverosímil unión con un conocido e impredecible bucanero llamado Bully Hayes (Tommy Lee Jones). (FILMAFFINITY)
Art Direction
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
