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Guerreros de antaño es una película dirigida por Lee Tamahori con Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga .... Año: 1994. Título original: Once Were Warriors. Sinopsis: En Nueva Zelanda, una familia descendiente de guerreros mahoríes vive, al igual que muchos otros, en los suburbios de una gran ciudad, en una situación de marginalidad respecto a las personas ...
Once Were Warriors. September 14, 1995. A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Ruth Brown. Alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors, first published in 1991, made an immediate and profound emotional impact, more for its perceived realism than for its literary merit.1 It is about the Heke family, poor Maori living in an urban ghetto. Jake, the father, is often unemployed and violent. Of the children, Grace kills herself after ...
The Auckland production company Communicado bought the rights to Alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors almost immediately after it was published in 1990 because it was exactly the type of story the company wanted to make its first feature, explains the film's producer Robin Scholes. The book then went on to become a New Zealand best seller.
This powerful drama centers on the troubled life of a Maori family crippled by poverty, bigotry, alcoholism and domestic violence. Watch trailers & learn more.
Once Were Warriors is the deeply affecting and uncompromising story of a contemporary Maori family. After 18 years and five children, Beth (Rena Owen) remains deeply in love with her husband, Jake (Temuera Morrison). Her family, however, is collapsing under the pressure of Jake’s drinking and explosive violence.
In 1994 overdonderde Tamahori critici en publiek met zijn razend knappe film Once Were Warriors. Het is het verhaal van het Maori-echtpaar Jake en Beth (Temuera en Rowen) die met hun schare kinderen leven in een verpauperde buitenwijk van Auckland, Nieuw-Zeeland. Hun huwelijk is op het eerste gezicht liefdevol maar Jake blijkt een licht ontvlambare geweldenaar onder invloed van alcohol.
