Movie
1994
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 New Zealand tragedy film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. The film tells the story of the Heke family, an urban Māori whānau living in South Auckland, and their problems with poverty, tobacco, gambling, drugs, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake. It explores the detrimental effects of the colonisation of New…
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New Zealand has young and relatively small, but very well known cinema industry, mostly due its talents and resources being employed by Hollywood productions. Some of New Zealand’s own films also became famous, and one of such examples includes 1994 drama *Once Were Warriors*. Based on the novel by Alan Duff, it deals with Maori family living in Auckland suburb surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse and crime…More
