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Bread and Roses
Television (Excerpts) – 1993
This acclaimed drama chronicles romance, hospitalisation and rebirth, as it follows formative decades in the life of trade unionist, politician and feminist Sonja Davies. Although director Gaylene Preston and co-writer Graeme Tetley's three-hour production was made for television, it won a limited cinema release on both sides of the Tasman. Australian Geneviève Picot (as Davies) and Mick Rose (as her husband) won acting gongs at the 1994 NZ Film and TV Awards. This excerpt features Sonja discovering the power of protest in the 1950s. Bread and Roses marked 100 years of women's suffrage in Aotearoa. Read more about it here.
Bread and Roses is Preston/Laing's best work yet and ... a wonderful suffrage year tribute to the women of New Zealand.– Reviewer Helen Martin in Illusions Magazine, 1994
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Preston*Laing Productions
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 Aotearoa/New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata
Music
Closing track 'Bread and Roses' composed by James Oppenheim and Mimi Fariña, and sung by Lisa Schouw
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