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Broken Barrier

1952 · 1 hr 9 mins

Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on "the" Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm. The emotional liaison he forms with Rawi, a young Maori woman exposes the racism engendered by the particular social attitudes and expectations of that time.

Directors: Roger Mirams, John O'Shea

Cast: Kay Ngarimu, Terence Bayler, Myra Hapi, George Ormond, Dorothy Tansley

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