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Bread Roses

"A survivor for whom mere survival was not enough"
Audience Score
80
Bread Roses
NR 3 hr 14 minWar, Drama
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist and later MP Sonja Davies The film covers her life up to 1956 when at age 33 she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs marries and divorces at age 17 trains as a nurse has a romance and a child with an American marine who is killed in WWII action She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war She becomes part of a womens illfated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies
StarringGeneviève PicotMick RoseDonna Akersten
DirectorGaylene Preston

Cast & Crew

Geneviève Picot
as Sonja
Mick Rose
as Charlie
Donna Akersten
as mrs. Mackersey
Raymond Hawthorne
as Mr. Mackersey

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$2,500,000
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Preston Laing New Zealand Film Commission
Bread Roses on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:nurse, politician