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Blerta Revisited

2001 Film
  • Arts/Culture
  • Documentary
  • Music
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If a single word could sum up the free-wheeling flavour of alternative music and comedy in Aotearoa during the 1970s, that word would surely be ... Blerta. The 'Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition' included foundation members of the NZ screen industry (Lawrence, Geoff Murphy, Alun Bollinger) plus other merry pranksters. Drawing on the Blerta TV series and beyond, Blerta Revisited  (aka Blerta - The Return Trip) is an anarchic collection of comedy skits, musical interludes and films culled from the Blerta archives. Costa Botes writes about Blerta here. 

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AudioCulture profile of Blerta

NZ Film Commission page on this film

Key Cast & Crew

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Geoff Murphy
Director
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Bruno Lawrence
Writer
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Ian Watkin
Various roles

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