Movie · 1952

Broken Barrier

Released 1 January 1952 More from 1952 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.