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- Title
- The End of the Golden Weather
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
Set over a Christmas beach holiday in 1935, The End of the Golden Weather chronicles the friendship between a teenage boy and the wild-limbed Firpo (Stephen Papps), dreamer and social outcast. Writer/director Ian Mune spent more than 15 years "massaging" Bruce Mason's legendary solo play into a movie, before assembling a dream team to bring it to the screen. The finished film captures the world view of a boy for whom fantasy, hope and disappointment intermingle. Among an impressive haul of aw...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1991
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-end-of-the-golden-weather-1991
- Related subjects
- childhood / rangitoto / takapuna / theatre / olympics / conservatism / social outcast / beach / christmas / fantasy / imagination / holidays / summer / teenagers / puberty / rite of passage / nz on air / new zealand on air / nzfc / nz film commission
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