Rain of the Children
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This film tells the plight of the Tuhoe, one of New Zealand's Maori tribes, and the complex life history of Te Puhi Tatu, a female member of the tribe. The film explores her relationship with Niki, her paranoid schizophrenic adult son, as well as Puhi's past, and lifts the lid on some of the bloody and
… More »This film tells the plight of the Tuhoe, one of New Zealand's Maori tribes, and the complex life history of Te Puhi Tatu, a female member of the tribe. The film explores her relationship with Niki, her paranoid schizophrenic adult son, as well as Puhi's past, and lifts the lid on some of the bloody and brutal oppression, intrigue and poverty inflicted by New Zealand colonial authorities on the indigenous Maori population. Puhi believed herself to be cursed, and this unknowable curse is what preoccupies Ward now. Puhi, he discovers, was an extraordinary woman. Chosen by Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana to marry his son, she survived the 1916 police raid on Rua's Maungapohatu community and went on to have 14 children.
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