Broken Barrier
A white boy... a maori girl. Facing the challenge of prejudice!
★★★★★
English / 71 MIN. / 1952
The Genres
The Synopsis
Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on "the" Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm. The emotional liaison he forms with Rawi, a young Maori woman exposes the racism engendered by the particular social attitudes and expectations of that time.