Rain of the Children

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Title

Rain of the Children

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NZ On Screen

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Description

This much praised documentary revisits the subject of a film Vincent Ward made in 1978, aged 21. That film, In Spring One Plants Alone, told the story of 80-year-old Puhi, who lived with her schizophrenic son in the isolated Urewera. The follow-up — part detective documentary, part historical reenactment — focuses on Puhi's life. She married the son of Māori prophet Rua Kenana, had 14 children, and after a run of tragedies, believed herself to be cursed. This excerpt goes “way out there in th...

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Video

Date created

2008

URL

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rain-of-the-children-2008

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religion / mental illness / family / curse / prophet / puhi / rua kenana / urewera / tuhoe / judith binney / kuri / dog / maungapohatu / nz on air / new zealand on air / nzfc / nz film commission

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