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Broken English (1996)
Directed by Gregor Nicholas
“Sometimes when you make love you make war.”
Romance, Drama · 1h 32m
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.
Cast
Rade Šerbedžija
Julian Arahanga
Marton Csokas
Stephen Ure
Crew
- Director
- Gregor Nicholas
- Writer
- James Salter, Gregor Nicholas, Johanna Pigott
- Director of Photography
- John Toon
- Editor
- David Coulson
- Producer
- Robin Scholes
Details
- Release date
- 1996-09-09
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese, Maori, Serbo-Croatian
- Countries
- New Zealand
- Production
- New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Communicado Productions