
09 Sep 2005

Summer in Berlin
An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
Success has its costs even when you are in the right
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.

Rewi
Peter Huaka
Nanny Matai
Hanna Lehmann

Fiona Gilbert

Dr. Sattler

Dieter Goetz
Teza

Helen Marangai

Professor Biederstedt
Taki Ruru

Hamish MacMillan

Gunter Schewer

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