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Bread & Roses
Bread & Roses
Film (Excerpts) – 1993 Documentary Drama
An excerpt from this feature film
One of four of the original TV promotional clips from this film.
One of four of the original TV promotional clips from this film.
One of four of the original TV promotional clips from this film.
One of four of the original TV promotional clips from this film.
The credits from this feature film
The Making of Bread & Roses
Behind the scenes documentary
Over Here
Sonja Davies features in this film about US marines in NZ
Mr Wrong
Also directed by Gaylene Preston
The Nineties
Also released to mark 100 years of women's suffrage in NZ
Ruby and Rata
Also directed by Gaylene Preston
The Making of Home by Christmas
Making of another Gaylene Preston production
Making Utu
Also directed by Gaylene Preston
Perfect Strangers
Directed by Gaylene Preston
Barefoot Cinema
A film on cinematographer Alun Bollinger
All the Way Up There
Produced and directed by Gaylene Preston
Absent Without Leave
Another period production from Robin Laing
What Really Happened - Votes for Women
Drama about Kate Sheppard's campaign for women's suffrage
Made to mark 100 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand, Bread & Roses tells the story of pioneering trade unionist, politician and feminist Sonja Davies (1923 - 2005), who rose to prominence in the 1940s and 50s. Directed by Gaylene Preston and co-written by Graeme Tetley, the acclaimed three-hour production played on television screens and got a limited cinema release. Australian actor Geneviève Picot (as Sonja Davies) and Mick Rose (as her husband) won gongs for their roles at the 1994 NZ Film and TV Awards. Bianca Zander writes about Bread & Roses here.
Warm, generous, and moving to a fault, this superbly mounted evocation of a life and an era slips through its epic length without a hint of a stumble.– Costa Botes in an Onfilm review, 1993
Produced by
Preston*Laing Productions
Availability
Available on DVD from Gaylene Preston Productions
More information
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air, Television New Zealand, 1993 Suffrage Centennial Year Trust, the New Zealand Film Commission and Beyond Distribution
Music
Music by John Charles.
Closing track 'Bread and Roses' sung by Lisa Schou, composed by J Oppenheim and M Farina