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Heart of the High Country

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Heart of the High Country
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NZ On Screen
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Heart of the High Country saw New Zealand and the mother country getting into bed together, on and off screen. The rags/riches/rags tale chronicles 18 years for Ceci (Valerie Gogan), a working class Brit who arrives in the South Island and fends off a series of mean-tempered pioneer males — and one long unrequited love. The Sam Pillsbury-directed miniseries played in primetime on ITV in the United Kingdom, and was funded by England’s Central TV and TVNZ. It shares storytelling DNA with earlie...

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Video
Date created
1985
URL
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/heart-high-country-1985
Related subjects
period / south island / farming / working class / pioneer / mother country / immigration / heroine / melodrama / elizabeth gowans / miniseries / mini-series / mini series / frontier

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