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Patu!

Film, 1983

 Patu!

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 Synopsis

Merata Mita’s Patu! is a startling documentary record of the mass civil disobedience that took place throughout New Zealand during the winter of 1981, in protest against a South African rugby tour. It staunchly contradicts claims by author Gordon McLachlan a couple of years earlier that New Zealanders were “a passionless people”.

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 Merata Mita
 Chris Barrett
 James Bartle
 
 

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 Background

A Perspective by Mihi Murray | 31.08.2008

Merata Mita's Patu! is a remarkable protest story told in the face of adversity, and a monument to a time when New Zealand was torn in two by the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. You were ...

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