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Te Rauparaha
Short Film (Full Length) – 1972
He believed in magic, yet was the ultimate realist. Perhaps he was a martyr, a sort of god?– A fictional settler
A cannibal statesman caught between the past and the future ...– From the narration
The British were blind fools, believing that their values were sacrosanct.– From the narration, on the Wairau massacre
Here was a man, a man of iron, locked in an age of stone ... an age of trees, of fish, of waves, of sky, and birds. And one supremely vicious animal: man.– From the narration
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