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One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

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One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

One of four of the original TV promotional clips.

The credits from Bread and Roses

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Bread and Roses

Television (Excerpts) – 1993

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This acclaimed drama chronicles romance, hospitalisation and rebirth, as it follows formative decades in the life of trade unionist, politician and feminist Sonja Davies. Although director Gaylene Preston and co-writer Graeme Tetley's three-hour production was made for television, it won a limited cinema release on both sides of the Tasman. Australian Geneviève Picot (as Davies) and Mick Rose (as her husband) won acting gongs at the 1994 NZ Film and TV Awards. This excerpt features Sonja discovering the power of protest in the 1950s. Bread and Roses marked 100 years of women's suffrage in Aotearoa. Read more about it here.

Bread and Roses is Preston/Laing's best work yet and ... a wonderful suffrage year tribute to the women of New Zealand.
– Reviewer Helen Martin in Illusions Magazine, 1994

Key Cast & Crew

Mick Rose

As: Charlie

Geneviève Picot

As: Sonja

Graeme Tetley

Writer

Allen Guilford

Cinematographer

Sonja Davies

Original Author

Gaylene Preston

Director, Writer, Associate Producer

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Preston*Laing Productions

Source

Gaylene Preston Productions

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from NZ On Air, Television New Zealand, 1993 Suffrage Centennial Year Trust, the NZ Film Commission and Beyond Distribution

Presented with thanks to the Aotearoa/New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata

Music

Closing track 'Bread and Roses' composed by James Oppenheim and Mimi Fariña, and sung by Lisa Schouw

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