| Location: | New Zealand / Aotearoa |
| Subject: | Historical feature; Maori wars |
| Length: | 101 minutes; 118 minutes |
| Format: | 35mm; 1/2-inch VHS; DVD |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1983, 2000 (DVD) |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Geoff Murphy |
| Producer: | Utu Productions in association with the New Zealand Film Commission |
| Distributor: | Facets; NZFC; CBS/Fox Video; Kino on Video |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 3076; DVD 0631 |
| Description: | Screenplay, Geoff Murphy, Keith Aberdein; executive producers, Don Blakeney, Kerry Robins. Photography, Graeme Cowley; film editor, Mike Horton; music, John Charles. Unrated director's cut, deluxe letterboxed ed. Contains some Maori dialog with English subtitles. Tells the story of a Maori warrior employed as a guide by a British regiment in New Zealand, during the British Colonial campaigns of the mid-1800s, who rebels and seeks revenge ("utu," in Maori) against his employers for slaughtering his people. Epic film about relations between the Maori and the British in the 1870s. |
| Record No: | 2242 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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