Once Were Warriors (film)

• Rena Owen: Beth Heke
• Temuera Morrison: Jake Heke
• Mamaengaroa Kerr - Bell: Grace Heke
• Julian Arahanga: Nig Heke
• Taungaroa Emile: Boogie Heke
• Rachael Morris Jr.: Polly Heke
• Joseph Kairau: Huata Heke
• Cliff Curtis: Bully

Once Were Warriors ( Once were Warriors ) is a New Zealand film directed by Lee Tamahori from the year 1994. The film is based on a novel, the first novel by Alan Duff, which was highly successful in 1991.

It was the highest grossing film of that time, and received many international awards. Some Māori feared, however, that this film could lead to a picture that the Māori man appear to be generally violent.

1999 with What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? the continuation rotated.

Action

The film is about the Māori family Heke in a city of modern New Zealand and domestic violence. The father of the family is violent, the family feels marginalized in the society of New Zealand. The film takes some references to the military past of the people of the Māori.

Criticism

Encyclopedia of the International film: "A startlingly realistic, absorbing scenarios and especially in the female lead convincingly played family tragedy. The film examines the causes of the disaster also in social relations and criticized the repression of indigenous culture through the (im ) morality of the whites. "

Awards

The film received a total of 19 first prizes, so at the Film Festival in Montreal, the Film Festival in Venice or at the International Film Festival Rotterdam the world.