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Crooked Earth (2001)
Directed by Sam Pillsbury
Drama
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
Cast
Temuera Morrison
Jaime Passier-Armstrong
Lawrence Makoare
Nancy Brunning
Mark Nua
Sydney Jackson
George Henare
Calvin Tuteao
William Davis
Crew
- Director
- Sam Pillsbury
- Writer
- Waihoroi Shortland, Greg McGee, Karin Altmann, Michael Brindley, Gavin Strawhan
- Director of Photography
- David Gribble
- Original Music Composer
- James Hall
- Editor
- Chris Plummer
- Producer
- Robin Scholes
Details
- Release date
- 2001-08-23
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, New Zealand
- Production
- Communicado Productions, Pandora, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air