The Silent One

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Title

The Silent One

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Description

Based on Joy Cowley's book, this award-winning children's drama follows the friendship between Jonasi, a deaf mute boy, and a rare white turtle. Jonasi lives in a Pacific Island village. When a drought occurs, the boy and the turtle are blamed and ostracised. Shot largely in Raratonga, this was the first New Zealand movie directed solely by a woman (Yvonne Mackay). Among those playing villagers are Utu star Zac Wallace, George Henare and Pākehā actor Pat Evison. Jenny McLeod's eclectic soundt...

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Format

Video

Date created

1984

URL

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-silent-one-1984

Related subjects

aitutaki / cook islands / rarotonga / children / mythology / deaf / mute / pacific / boar / pig hunting / hunting / dance / conch / one foot island / outcast / friendship / mama turtle / dolby stereo / prejudice / rite of passage / puberty / pacific drums / training / turtle / ocean / underwater / dream

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