Hotu Painu

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Title

Hotu Painu

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Pita Turei's wide-ranging documentary explores the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific — and its relationship with French colonialism in Tahiti (which locals claim has made them strangers or "Hotu Painu" in their own land). There is compelling testimony of serious health effects from previous tests; and Turei's cameras follow a Greenpeace protest flotilla to Moruroa as the French keep watch. Interwoven throughout is the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and its aftermath, as DGSE agents ar...

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Video

Date created

1988

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/hotu-painu-1988

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colonialism / protest / health / mururoa / nuclear testing / tahiti / rainbow warrior / greenpeace / peter turei / 1980s / 80s / eighties / bomb / radioactive / birth defects / pacific ocean / radiation / radiation deformity / pitcairn island / topp twins / french testing / brigantine breeze / tihema galvin / french nuclear testing / chris robinson / turi blake / breeze / christmas island / rain / rafiu tehiva / fa'aa / martin gotje / rongelap atoll / garth halloway / radiation levels / dominique prieur / sophie turenge / fernando pereira / christine cabon / frederique bonlieu / atomic / atomic bomb / auckland / tame iti / maohi / france / varangian / natasha armstrong / oscar temaru / jim cottier / jacky drollet / maohi people / emma vanna / polynesia / marie-therese danielsson / poisoned reign / vega / tuamotu islands / tiare rua / norman kirk / frigate / new zealand navy / south pacific / david lange / laurent fabius / pouvanaa a oopa / french navy / materauru / mangareva atoll / aitoa tanematea / manarii teuira / felix rara colonbel / contamination / poisoned / dr tony atkinson / matauri bay / charlie ching

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