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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
Pioneering Women
A collection celebrating women and feminism in New...
Over Here
Sonja Davies features in this film about US marines in NZ
The Making of Bread & Roses
Behind the scenes documentary
The Write Stuff - Sonja Davies
Sonja Davies talks about writing her memoirs
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
Behind the scenes on 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
Sheilas: 28 Years On
Other Kiwi feminists reflect on their lives
Pacific Viewpoint - Paddy Walker interview
Another women's rights advocate
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 also 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.
Bread and Roses is Preston/Laing's best work yet and ... a wonderful suffrage year tribute to women of New Zealand.– Helen Martin in Illusions Magazine, 1994
Produced by
Preston*Laing Productions
Availability
Available on DVD from Gaylene Preston Productions
First television screening on 3 October 1993, on TV One's Montana Sunday Theatre
More information
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air, Television New Zealand, 1993 Suffrage Centennial Year Trust, the NZ Film Commission and Beyond Distribution
Presented with thanks to the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata
Music
Music by John Charles
Closing track 'Bread and Roses' composed by James Oppenheim and Mimi Fariña, and sung by Lisa Schou