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Sons for the Return Home

10/01/1979

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1hr 57min

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Drama

,Romance

STORY

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Uelese Petaia
  • Fiona Lindsay
  • Moria Walker
  • Amalamo Tanielu
  • Anne Flannery

    Directors

  • Vincent Ward
  • Paul Maunder

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Pacific Films

    Production Countries

  • New Zealand

LANGUAGES

  • Samoan
  • English

Cast

Uelese Petaia

Sione

Fiona Lindsay

Sarah

Moria Walker

Sione's mother

Amalamo Tanielu

Malie

Anne Flannery

Sarah's mother

Alan Jervis

Sarah's father

Lani Tupu

Sione's father

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