Bread & Roses

07/18/1993

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3hrs 14min

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Drama

,War

A survivor for whom mere survival was not enough

STORY

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Geneviève Picot
  • Mick Rose
  • Donna Akersten
  • Raymond Hawthorne
  • Tina Regtien

    Director

  • Gaylene Preston

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Preston Laing
  • New Zealand Film Commission

    Production Countries

  • New Zealand

LANGUAGES

  • English