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Try Revolution

Television (Excerpts) – 2006

Some argue that if the 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand had been halted from the outset, the impact on the hearts and minds of South Africans would not have been as profound. This Leanne Pooley-directed film aims to show how events in Aotearoa (captured in Merata Mita's documentary Patu!) played out in South Africa; how the tour protests energized blacks, shamed the regime, and provoked democratic change. Says Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "You really can't even compute its value, it said the world has not forgotten us, we are not alone."

To see strife between families in New Zealand and how it really ripped the country apart, well I think that’s quite bad and then realising this isn’t the way it should be. That was a big eye opener.
– Wynand Claasen, Springbok Captain 1981

Key Cast & Crew

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Tim Woodhouse

Editor

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John Callen

Narrator

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Leanne Pooley

Director, Producer

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Michael Yelsith

Cinematographer - South Africa

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Sam Good

Sound

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Don Matthewson

Sound

See all 9 credits

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from NZ On Air

Music

Music by Tom Fox: The Soundroom

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