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Bombshell

2016 1h 25m Television
  • Documentary
  • Crime
  • NZ History
  • Drama

This full-length telefeature dramatises the infamous 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, while docked in Auckland ahead of a protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. In the dead of night, two bombs exploded on the hull of the ship, killing Dutch-Portugese photographer Fernando Pereira. Police investigators uncovered a trail leading back to the French secret service, and a web of conspiracy and espionage. The third TV dramatisation of the Rainbow Warrior tragedy was nominated for Best TV Feature at the NZ Film Awards, and for Feature and Script at the NZTV Awards. 

Key Cast & Crew

Profile picture of Colin Moy
Colin Moy
As: Detective Harry Hilditch
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Ande Cunningham
As: Fernando Pereira
MP
Mia Pistorius
As: Joanne Pereira
CF
Coen Falke
As: Peter Willcox (Captain of the Rainbow Warrior)