The trailer for the film.
The first 10 minutes of this film.
An excerpt with Bruno Lawrence, highlighted in The Bruno Lawrence Collection.
It's the 1870s, and Māori leader Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace) is fed up by brutal land grabs. He leads a bloody rebellion against the colonial Government, provoking threatened frontiersmen, disgruntled natives, lusty wahine, bible-bashing priests, and kupapa alike to consider the nature of ‘utu’ (retribution). Legendary New Yorker critic Pauline Kael raved about Geoff Murphy’s ambitious follow up to Goodbye Pork Pie: “[He] has an instinct for popular entertainment. He has a deracinated kind of hip lyricism. And they fuse quite miraculously in this epic ...”
For me it is blood for blood. Utu.– Matu (Merata Mita)
Utu Productions
Made with funding from the NZ Film Commission
Presented with thanks to the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata
Music composeed by John Charles. Performed by the NZ Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Southgate.
Waiatas by Jane and Paul Mareikura
Māori flute by Joe Malcolm
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