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Utu Redux

Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 2013

PG
Parental Guidance

The poster for Utu Redux

Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke.

Courtesy of Guy Robinson

Behind the scenes on Utu. From left to right: actor Tim Shadbolt (in top hat), director Geoff Murphy, first assistant director Lee Tamahori, grip Alister Barry and camera operator Paul Leach.

Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

The January 1983 premiere of Utu in Napier. From left: then Governor-General Sir David Beattie, Sir Graham Latimer (Chairman of the Māori Council), David Carson-Parker (executive producer of Utu) and the film's director Geoff Murphy.

Photographer: Barry Durrant. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

Geoff Murphy and then wife Pat Robins arrive for the premiere of Utu in Napier, in January 1983. Disembarking from the cart are John Charles, who composed the soundtrack, and his wife Judy.

Photographer: Barry Durrant. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

A poster for the original 1983 release of Utu.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

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