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As: Daniel
As: Mother
As: Father Connolly
As: Sister Bernadette
As: Stalin
As: Father
Director, Writer, Producer
Editor
Writer
First Assistant Director
Cinematographer
Original Author
Art Director
Casting Director
Sound Recordist
Producer
Another award-winning short about a very imaginative kid
More post-war religious confusion involving a child
Costa Botes later documented the writer of Stalin's Sickle
More dramatic Kiwi Cold War Communist paranoia
More Communist paranoia
Also co-written by Anne Kennedy
Drama based on an Anne Kennedy short story
An earlier Russian-Kiwi encounter
Costa Botes also directed this
Costa Botes was also a director on this
A documentary from the same director-producer team
Producer Brian Sweeney once managed The Topp Twins
A feature film about Kiwi suburban paranoia
Costa Botes’ first feature film
Featuring Costa Botes as an alien who is bisected
Stars Stephen Gledhill
A short film produced by Costa Botes
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